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DVD Disc Makers QOL, V.T.V. NV, kdg Enter Into MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent License

Posted by Sachin Garg on 29th July 2005 | Permanent Link

MPEG LA announced that three optical disc manufacturers, QOL of France, V.T.V. NV of Belgium and kdg Mediatech of Austria, France and the United Kingdom, announced today that they have become licensees to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License. Another story here.

The DVD disc manufacturers are founding members of a trade association called Optical Disc Association (”ODA”). Their decision to accept the license concludes litigation in Germany and France brought by patent holders to the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License and the three DVD disc manufacturers. That litigation concerned whether DVD disc manufacturers infringe patents in the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License as a result of DVD disc manufacturing and the validity of the patents in the License. After a full discussion of the patents in the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License, QOL, kdg and V.T.V. NV decided to become licensees and concluded that the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License is a reasonable way for DVD disc manufacturers to comply with their MPEG-2 intellectual property needs.

“MPEG LA looks forward to a cooperative relationship with QOL, V.T.V. NV and kdg in which they have joined our more than 800 licensees including the world’s leading DVD manufacturers,” said MPEG LA CEO Baryn S. Futa.

The MPEG-2 Video and Systems digital compression standard (”MPEG-2 Standard”) refers to the core technology underlying the efficient creation, transmission, storage and display of digitized moving images and sound tracks on which DVD and other digital technologies are based. The DVD-Video Standard (DVD Specifications for Read-Only Disc, Part 3: VIDEO SPECIFICATIONS) requires DVD Video discs to contain information formatted in accordance with the MPEG-2 Standard.

MPEG LA is a provider of one-stop technology platform patent licenses, enabling users to acquire worldwide patent rights necessary for a particular technology standard or platform from multiple patent holders in a single transaction as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses. MPEG LA is not related to any standards agency and is not an affiliate of any patent holder.

One Response to “DVD Disc Makers QOL, V.T.V. NV, kdg Enter Into MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent License”

  1. mark Says:
    February 21st, 2006 at 8:28 pm

    to instal

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