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ULDAGE Inc. announced today that MxH co., Ltd. has joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of MxH co., Ltd. to the pool now makes the number of companies 18* which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB Standards through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use ARIB Standards.
ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.
The essential patents owned by MxH co., Ltd. will be published as from January 1, 2024 on ULDAGE’s website.

* Dolby International AB,INFOCITY, Inc., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, KYOCERA CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., MxH co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, NHK Foundation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Holdings Corporation., Sharp Corporation, Sony Group Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TVS REGZA CORPORATION.

ULDAGE Inc., the patent pool license administrator, is pleased to announce that, SKY Perfect Entertainment Corporation, a CS 4K digital television broadcaster, and ULDAGE, after long-held negotiations, have executed license agreement for essential patents relating to CS 4K digital television broadcasting.
Advanced Narrowband CS 4K digital television broadcasting which started in Japan in March 2015 and Advanced Broadband CS 4K digital television broadcasting which started in Japan in December 2018 (hereinafter collectively referred to as “CS 4K digital television broadcasting”), is provided in conformity with the commonly known as ARIB Standards established through discussions among the participating members of The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). The Standards reflect technologies, suggestions, and ideas of numerous broadcasters, device manufacturers, and other concerned parties, and consequently, there is a wide variety of patent holders involved in such technologies, and a large number of essential patents are also involved.
Unless appropriate measures are taken to tackle this kind of complex patent issue, the standards themselves or the growth of CS 4K digital television broadcasting business itself could be negatively affected.
ULDAGE was established in July 2006 in order to resolve such patent issue and promote the growth of the digital television broadcasting system by gathering various essential patents relating to digital television broadcasting in one place and then licensing them as a package through the commonly known as patent pooling method.
At present, ULDAGE has pooled approximately 660 essential patents held by 19 patent holders. Under the CS 4K digital television license program intended for receivers, which was implemented back in 2017, 85 licensee companies manufacture and sell such devices, and the program has contributed greatly to the establishment of the environment for the promotion of the CS 4K digital televisions which are capable to receive high resolution 4K digital television broadcasting in addition to existing 2K digital television broadcasting.
Digital television broadcasting cannot be realized unless both ends exist: the broadcasters which send signals that comply with the ARIB Standards and the television receivers which receive such signals. Consequently, ULDAGE has long pursued negotiations with the representatives of the television broadcasters to materialize the license program for digital television broadcasting. The recent execution of license agreements with a CS 4K digital television broadcaster, following the license agreements with 129 terrestrial digital television broadcasters concluded in March 2013, as well as those with 19 BS digital television broadcasters concluded in September 2015, as well as those with 21 CS digital　television broadcasters concluded in April 2018, and with 9 BS 4K digital television broadcasters concluded in December 2022, are groundbreaking in that the broadcasters will now reward the patent holders, namely, the developers of the relevant technologies, by directly bearing an appropriate proportion of royalties for the use of such technologies.
As a result, the broadcasters will be able to conduct their broadcasting businesses without any concern over the issue of CS 4K digital television broadcasting related essential patents pooled with ULDAGE. ULDAGE shall contribute to maintain the culture of fair sharing of royalties among the implementers.

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that NHK Foundation has joined the patent pool for Satellite-UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of NHK Foundation to the pool now makes the number of companies 19* which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite-UHDTV Standards through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite-UHDTV Standards.
ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.
The essential patents owned by NHK Foundation will be published as from January 1, 2024 on ULDAGE’s website.

* Dolby International AB, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Foundation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, SK planet co., Ltd., Sony Group Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TVS REGZA CORPORATION

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that TVS REGZA CORPORATION has joined the patent pool for Cable TV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of TVS REGZA CORPORATION to the pool now makes the number of companies 16* which are licensing their essential patents for Cable TV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Cable TV standards.
ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.
The essential patents owned by NHK Foundation will be published as from January 1, 2024 on ULDAGE’s website.

*Dolby International AB, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Foundation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, SK planet co., Ltd., Sony Group Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TVS REGZA CORPORATION.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”) announces today an additional call for patents essential to the Digital Cable Television System standards.

ULDAGE began patent licensing on October 1, 2008 by a patent pool method that grants patents essential to the implementation of the digital cable television broadcasting standard under reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions. (“ULDAGE Releases Joint Patent License for Japanese Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards”). This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital cable television broadcasting system in Japan.

And on December 20, 2019, ULDAGE offers the additional call for patents essential for digital cable television system standards, the purpose of this patent call is to add new standards applied for services started by the digital cable industry after the first call for patents made in December 2007.

Based on this experience, ULDAGE offers the additional call for patents essential for digital cable television system standards on October 1, 2023. The purpose of this patent call is to add new standards applied for IP re-broadcasting services started by the digital cable industry.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the newly added standards as well as the existing standards to submit such patents to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”) for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to https://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information.

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-001	Conditional Access System for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-002	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-003	Service Information for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-007	Receiver for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-008 *1	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital Signals Over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-011	Pass-through Method for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Signals over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-012	Head-Amplifier for Retransmitting Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-022 *1	RFoG for FTTH Cable Television System
JCTEA TR-007 *1	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital / CS Wideband Digital Signal for FTTH Television System
JLabs SPEC-001	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-001-01	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Detailed specifications of illegal usage protection function
JLabs SPEC-001-02	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Operational specifications for download function
JLabs SPEC-002	Operational specifications for 110°E longitude CS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-003	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-004	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting (i-HITS)
JLabs SPEC-005	Operational specifications for JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-006	Operational specifications for Pass-Through terrestrial digital broadcasting and independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-007	Operational specifications for Trans-Modulation terrestrial broadcasting and independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-014 *1	Operational Specification for V-ONU Remote Control
JLabs SPEC-029 *1	Operational Specification for Hybridcast Service
JLabs SPEC-039 *1	Operational specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting	Volume 2 is excluded
JLabs SPEC-045 *2	Operational specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting (IP pass-through)
ITU-T Rec, J296(06/2012) *1	Specifications for a hybrid cable set-top box	Published English version of JLabs SPEC-023
ARIB STD-B20	Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Related to multiplexing techniques in transmission system are excluded
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Volume 1, Part 2, 4.4, and Volume 2, Appendix 4 and 5 are excluded.
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Part 1, Chapter 5 and 6, and Part 2 are excluded.
ARIB STD-B31	Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting	Related to hierarchical transmission techniques in transmission system are excluded.
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
ARIB TR-B14	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting	Related to transmission techniques in one-segment broadcasting system and C profile for receiver are excluded.
ARIB TR-B15	Operational Guidelines for Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Related to transmission techniques are excluded.
Other ARIB Standards	Other ARIB Standards quoted in JCTEA Standards and JLabs Operational Specification as requirement	Note some parts in ARIB STD-B10 and STD-B21 are transcribed, cited or complied with Standards and operational specifications for cable system.

Patents related to MPEG-2 Video Standards, MPEG-4 Video Standards, H.264/MPEG-4AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards administrated by already existing patent license schemes and Broadcasting System Based on Home Servers are excluded.
※ The standards *1 are the ones added on December 20th, 2019, and *2 are the ones added on October 1st,2023.
※ This chart is for information purpose only. A patent evaluation will be in the Japanese language

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it is going to make some of the standards available for the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting applicable to CATV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 1000 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a Call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”). An additional Call for Patents was made on June 10, 2017 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the Addition of Subject Standards Regarding the Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”). A 2nd additional Call for Patents was made on December 21, 2018 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the second additional Call for Patents Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”).A 3rd additional Call for Patents was made on Dec. 20, 2019 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces Third Additional Call for Patents Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, a standard, that are expected to be used mainly in IP pass-through broadcasting, is to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for the evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continues available. For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (https://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-002 *1	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television	Volume 1 Part3,Part5 are applicable *1 Volume 2 ITU-T Rec.J.382 is applicable *3
JCTEA STD-003 *1	Service Information for Digital Cable Television	Part 4 is applicable *1 Of the “descriptors” described in the remainder portions of the Standard, the description related to “advanced cable distribution system” is applicable *3
JCTEA STD-007 *1	Receiver for Digital Cable Television	Part 2 is applicable
JCTEA STD-008 *3	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital Signals Over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-022 *3	RFoG for FTTH Cable Television System
JCTEA TR-007 *3	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital / CS Wideband Digital Signal for FTTH Television System
JLabs SPEC-014 *3	Operational Specification for V-ONU Remote Control
JLabs SPEC-017	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting (independent broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-018	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting （i-HITS）
JLabs SPEC-019	Operational specifications for Advanced JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-028	Operational Specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting (Independent Broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-029 *3	Operational Specification for Hybridcast Service
JLabs SPEC-030	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Video on Demand Services
JLabs SPEC-033 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (single QAM)
JLabs SPEC-034 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (multiple QAM) (corresponds to 4K/8K)
JLabs SPEC-035 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced Cable independent broadcasting (corresponds to ACAS)	Excluding the part which is described as being out of scope. (Chapter 5: Appendix 1, Chapter 6: 6.12, Chapter 9: 9.5, etc.)
JLabs SPEC-039 *3	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Broadcasting	Volume 2 is applicable
JLabs SPEC-045 *4	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Broadcasting (IP pass-through)
ITU-T Rec.J297(03/2018) *3	Requirements and functional specification of cable set-top boxes for 4K ultra-high definition television	Published English version of JLabs SPEC-023

※The standards *1 are the ones added on June 10th, 2017, *2 are the ones added on December 21st, 2018, *3 including those specified in the column of Information are the ones added on December 20th,2019, *4 is the one added on October 1st, 2023.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it is going to make two new standards available for the Call for Patents essential to the standards of television broadcasting applicable to IPTV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 1,000 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a Call for Patents essential to the standards of the television broadcasting for IPTV (with a news release on the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”), and on September 1st, 2020 additional Call for Patents for BS IP retransmission (with a news release on the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces Additional Call for Patents Essential to Television Broadcasting for IPTV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standards of television broadcasting for IPTV, two standards that was formulated by IPTV Forum Japan after the original Call for Patents and is expected to be used mainly in the Terrestrial and BS IP pass-through re-transmission, is to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for the evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continues available.

For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (https://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name	Information
IPTVFJ STD-0001	Overview
IPTVFJ STD-0002	VOD Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0003	Download Specification	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0004	IP Broadcasting Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0005	Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0006	CDN Scope Service Approach Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0007	Internet Scope Service Approach Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0008	Specifications of IPTV Service Approach by Integration with Broadcasting
IPTVFJ STD-0009	Digital Satellite Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0010	Integrated Broadcast-Broadband System Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0011	HTML5 Browser Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0012	Operator to Operator Communication Metadata Operational Guideline	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0013	Hybridcast Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0014	Advanced BS Digital Broadcasting IP Rebroadcast Operational Guideline	Added to this table on Sep. 1, 2020 : English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0015	Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting IP Rebroadcast Operational Specifications	Added to this table on Oct. 1, 2023 : English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0016	BS Digital Broadcasting IP Rebroadcasting Operational Specifications	Added to this table on Oct. 1, 2023 : English version is not available
IPTVFJ DOC-0002	Hybridcast Technical Specification Service Guideline	English version is not available

IPTVFJ Standards are available from the following website ：
http://www.iptvforum.jp/download/
The IPTVFJ Standards refers to the Specifications of the Networked Digital Television
Study Group.
This Specifications are available from the following website ：
http://nw-dtv.jp/documents/index.html

(Tokyo Japan– January 1. 2023) ULDAGE Inc.(“ULDAGE”) announced today that KDDI CORPORATION(“KDDI”) has joined the patent pool for Satellite-UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE. The joining of KDDI to the pool, now makes the number of companies 19* which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite-UHDTV Standards through ULDAGE, resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite-UHDTV Standards.

ULDAGE welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

*Dolby International AB, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, SK planet co., Ltd., Sony Group Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TVS REGZA CORPORATION

ULDAGE Inc., the patent pool license administrator, is pleased to report that, up to today, following BS 4K digital television broadcasters and ULDAGE, after long-held negotiations, have executed license agreements for essential patents relating to BS 4K digital television broadcasting.

(Listed in numerical order of channel)
NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), BS Nippon Corporation, Asahi Satellite Broadcasting Limited, BS-TBS, INC., BS TV Tokyo Corporation, FUJI SATELLITE BROADCASTING, INC., WOWOW INC., SC Satellite Hoso Kabushikikaisha, QVC SATELLITE, INC.

BS 4K digital television broadcasting, which started in Japan in December 2018, is provided in conformity with the commonly known as ARIB Standards established through discussions among the participating members of The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). The Standards reflect technologies, suggestions, and ideas of numerous broadcasters, device manufacturers, and other concerned parties, and consequently, there is a wide variety of patent holders involved in such technologies, and a large number of essential patents are also involved.

Unless appropriate measures are taken to tackle this kind of complex patent issue, the standards themselves or the growth of BS 4K digital television broadcasting business itself could be negatively affected.

ULDAGE was established in July 2006 in order to resolve such patent issue and promote the growth of the digital television broadcasting system by gathering various essential patents relating to digital television broadcasting in one place and then licensing them as a package through the commonly known as patent pooling method.

At present, ULDAGE has pooled approximately 570 essential patents held by 19 patent holders. Under the BS 4K digital television license program intended for receivers, which was implemented back in 2017, 88 licensee companies manufacture and sell such devices, and the program has contributed greatly to the establishment of the environment for the promotion of the BS 4K digital televisions which are capable to receive high resolution 4K digital television broadcasting in addition to existing 2K digital television broadcasting.

Digital television broadcasting cannot be realized unless both ends exist: the broadcasters which send signals that comply with the ARIB Standards and the television receivers which receive such signals.
Consequently, ULDAGE has long pursued negotiations with the representatives of the BS 4K digital television broadcasters to materialize the license program for BS 4K digital television broadcasting. The recent execution of license agreements with the BS 4K digital television broadcasters, following the license agreements with 129 terrestrial digital television broadcasters concluded in March 2013, as well as those with 19 BS digital television broadcasters concluded in September 2015 and 21 CS digital　television broadcasters concluded in April 2018 are groundbreaking in that the broadcasters will now reward the patent holders, namely, the developers of the relevant technologies, by directly bearing an appropriate proportion of royalties for the use of such technologies.
As a result, the broadcasters will be able to further conduct their broadcasting businesses in a stable condition without any concern over the issue of BS 4K digital television broadcasting related essential patents pooled with ULDAGE.BS 4K digital television broadcasting has just launched recently and we expect additional new broadcasters in future. These new broadcasters are also required to enter into the similar license agreement. ULDAGE shall contribute to maintain the culture of fair sharing of royalties among the implementers.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”) announced today that the Patent Pool License for the IPTV Standards is now available.The License includes essential patents owned by the following 12 companies..

(Listed alphabetically)
Bitmedia Inc., FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Sony Group Corporation,TVS REGZA Corporation

These 12 companies agreed on the following license terms for launching the license program through ULDAGE. The royalties relating to IPTV broadcasting are, in case of receiving devices, JPY100 per unit that is capable of receiving either of 2K or 4K Re-Broadcasting and JPY180 per unit that is capable of receiving both of 2K and 4K Re-Broadcasting as examples. For more details, please refer to Uldage’s Website.

Technology transition from analog to digital has made the patent issues more complicated. The IPTV Standards License will simplify it by licensing as a package multiple essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions. ULDAGE Inc. currently operates license programs under the patent pool system for the standards of high definition terrestrial digital broadcasting, high definition satellite digital broadcasting, high definition digital cable broadcasting, ultra high definition satellite digital broadcasting and ultra high definition digital cable broadcasting respectively. ULDAGE Inc. believes that the establishment of this IPTV license scheme will help ensure a stable business environment for those engaged in thebusiness of IPTV.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents and hopes thatthis patent license program will expand further.


* IPTV in this context means IPTV broadcasting services such as “HIKARI TV” and “au HIKARI” provided through the managed network based upon IPTV Standards and is different from popular video contents transmission services (so-called Internet Television) provided through the open network (internet).

(Tokyo Japan – Oct.1. 2021) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that TVS REGZA CORPORATION has joined the patent pool for Cable UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of TVS REGZA CORPORATION to the pool now makes the number of companies 10* which are licensing their essential patents for Cable UHDTV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Cable UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

The essential patents owned by TVS REGZA CORPORATION will be published as from October 1, 2021 on ULDAGE’s website.

*FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sony Group Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TVS REGZA CORPORATION.

Today, ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration,relocates its Headquarters to near Tokyo Station.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 1,000 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

This time, the Headquarters is relocated from the Uchisaiwaicho to Marunouchi so that it’s quite convenient for patent owners and licensees to give access to the office. Taking this opportunity, our employees as a team will work hard to provide higher quality services for the clients.

[Overview of the new Headquarters]
Business start date: January 12, 2021 (Tuesday)
New location: Yusen Building, 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
TEL: +81-(0)3-6256-0150
FAX: +81-(0)3-6256-0151

(Tokyo Japan – January 1. 2021) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that INFOCITY, Inc. has joined the patent pool for Cable UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc..The joining of INFOCITY, Inc. the pool, now makes the number of companies 9 which are licensing their essential patents for Cable UHDTV Standards through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Cable UHDTV Standards.

ULDAGE welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it is going to make a new standard available for the Call for Patents essential to the standards of television broadcasting applicable to IPTV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 1,000 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a Call for Patents essential to the standards of television broadcasting for IPTV (with a news release on the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standards of television broadcasting for IPTV, one standard that was formulated by IPTV Forum Japan after the original Call for Patents and is expected to be used mainly in Advanced BS IP re-transmission, is to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for the evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continues to be available.

For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (https://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name	Information
IPTVFJ STD-0001	Overview
IPTVFJ STD-0002	VOD Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0003	Download Specification	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0004	IP Broadcasting Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0005	Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0006	CDN Scope Service Approach Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0007	Internet Scope Service Approach Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0008	Specifications of IPTV Service Approach by Integration with Broadcasting
IPTVFJ STD-0009	Digital Satellite Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0010	Integrated Broadcast-Broadband System Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0011	HTML5 Browser Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0012	Operator to Operator Communication Metadata Operational Guideline	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0013	Hybridcast Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0014	Advanced BS Digital Broadcasting IP Rebroadcast Operational Guideline	Added to this table on Sep. 1, 2020 : English version is not available
IPTVFJ DOC-0002	Hybridcast Technical Specification Service Guideline	English version is not available

IPTVFJ Standards are available from the following website ：
http://www.iptvforum.jp/download/
The IPTVFJ Standards refers to the Specifications of the Networked Digital Television
Study Group.
This Specifications are available from the following website ：
http://nw-dtv.jp/documents/index.html

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), announced today that SK planet co., Ltd ("SKP") has joined the patent pool for Satellite-UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE. The joining of SKP to the pool, now makes the number of companies 19 which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite-UHDTV Standards through ULDAGE, resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite-UHDTV Standards.

ULDAGE welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it will discontinue the Call for Patents essential for advanced narrowband transmission system for the Ultra High Definition Television Satellite Broadcasting standard (UHDTV standard).

The Ultra High Definition Television Satellite Broadcasting normal program services using an advanced narrowband transmission system ended on November 25, 2018. Instead, the Ultra High Definition Television Satellite Broadcasting using an advanced broadband transmission system (new 4K / 8K broadcasting) started on December 1, 2018.

ULDAGE discontinues the Call for Patents essential for the advanced narrowband transmission system, based on the fact that over one year has passed since the end of the Ultra High Definition Television Satellite Broadcasting normal program services using the advanced narrowband transmission system, and no new receivers for the same system are available in the market.

Licensees who have already signed a license agreement with ULDAGE are entitled to continue to implement the Essential Patent Portfolio for the advanced narrowband transmission system managed by ULDAGE.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it is going to make some of the standards available for the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting applicable to CATV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 700 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a Call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”). An additional Call for Patents was made on June 10, 2017 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the Addition of Subject Standards Regarding the Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”). A 2nd additional Call for Patents was made on Dec. 21, 2018 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the second additional Call for Patents Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, some of the standards, that are expected to be used mainly in IP transmission, BS pass-through transmission and Hybrid cast, are to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for the evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continues available. For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-002 *1	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television	Volume 1 Part3,Part5 are applicable *1 Volume 2 ITU-T Rec.J.382 is applicable *3
JCTEA STD-003 *1	Service Information for Digital Cable Television	Part 4 is applicable *1 Of the “descriptors” described in the remainder portions of the Standard, the description related to “advanced cable distribution system” is applicable *3
JCTEA STD-007 *1	Receiver for Digital Cable Television	Part 2 is applicable
JCTEA STD-008 *3	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital Signals Over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-022 *3	RFoG for FTTH Cable Television System
JCTEA TR-007 *3	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital / CS Wideband Digital Signal for FTTH Television System
JLabs SPEC-014 *3	Operational Specification for V-ONU Remote Control
JLabs SPEC-017	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting (independent broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-018	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting （i-HITS）
JLabs SPEC-019	Operational specifications for Advanced JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-028	Operational Specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting (Independent Broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-029 *3	Operational Specification for Hybridcast Service
JLabs SPEC-030	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Video on Demand Services
JLabs SPEC-033 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (single QAM)
JLabs SPEC-034 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (multiple QAM)
JLabs SPEC-035 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced Cable independent broadcasting	Excluding the part which is described as being out of scope. (Chapter 5: Appendix 1, Chapter 6: 6.12, Chapter 9: 9.5, etc.)
JLabs SPEC-039 *3	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Broadcasting	Volume 2 is applicable
ITU-T Rec.J297(03/2018) *3	Requirements and functional specification of cable set-top boxes for 4K ultra-high definition television	Published English version of JLabs SPEC-023

※The standards *1 are the ones added on June 10th, 2017, *2 are the ones added on December 21st, 2018, *3 including those specified in the column of Information are the ones added on December 20th,2019.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”),announces today an additional call for patents essential to the Digital Cable Television System standards.

ULDAGE began patent licensing on October 1, 2008 by a patent pool method that grants patents essential to the implementation of the digital cable television broadcasting standard under reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions. (“ULDAGE Releases Joint Patent License for Japanese Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards”). This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital cable television broadcasting system in Japan.

Based on this experience, ULDAGE offers the additional call for patents essential for digital cable television system standards on December 20th, 2019. The purpose of this patent call is to add new standards applied for services started by the digital cable industry after the first call for patents made in December 2007.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the newly added standards as well as the existing standards to submit such patents to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”) for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information.

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-001	Conditional Access System for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-002	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-003	Service Information for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-007	Receiver for Digital Cable Television
JCTEA STD-008 *1	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital Signals Over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-011	Pass-through Method for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Signals over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-012	Head-Amplifier for Retransmitting Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting over Cable Television System
JCTEA STD-022 *1	RFoG for FTTH Cable Television System
JCTEA TR-007 *1	Pass-through Method for Transmission of BS Digital / CS Wideband Digital Signal for FTTH Television System
JLabs SPEC-001	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-001-01	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Detailed specifications of illegal usage protection function
JLabs SPEC-001-02	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Operational specifications for download function
JLabs SPEC-002	Operational specifications for 110°E longitude CS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-003	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-004	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting (i-HITS)
JLabs SPEC-005	Operational specifications for JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-006	Operational specifications for Pass-Through terrestrial digital broadcasting and independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-007	Operational specifications for Trans-Modulation terrestrial broadcasting and independent broadcasting
JLabs SPEC-014 *1	Operational Specification for V-ONU Remote Control
JLabs SPEC-029 *1	Operational Specification for Hybridcast Service
JLabs SPEC-039 *1	Operational specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting	Volume 2 is excluded
ITU-T Rec, J296(06/2012) *1	Specifications for a hybrid cable set-top box	Published English version of JLabs SPEC-023
ARIB STD-B20	Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Related to multiplexing techniques in transmission system are excluded
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Volume 1, Part 2, 4.4, and Volume 2, Appendix 4 and 5 are excluded.
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Part 1, Chapter 5 and 6, and Part 2 are excluded.
ARIB STD-B31	Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting	Related to hierarchical transmission techniques in transmission system are excluded.
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
ARIB TR-B14	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting	Related to transmission techniques in one-segment broadcasting system and C profile for receiver are excluded.
ARIB TR-B15	Operational Guidelines for Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Related to transmission techniques are excluded.
Other ARIB Standards	Other ARIB Standards quoted in JCTEA Standards and JLabs Operational Specification as requirement	Note some parts in ARIB STD-B10 and STD-B21 are transcribed, cited or complied with Standards and operational specifications for cable system.

Patents related to MPEG-2 Video Standards, MPEG-4 Video Standards, H.264/MPEG-4AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards administrated by already existing patent license schemes and Broadcasting System Based on Home Servers are excluded.
※ The standards *1 are the ones added on December 20th, 2019.
※ This chart is for information purpose only. A patent evaluation will be in the Japanese language

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION has joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION to the pool, now makes the number of companies 20* which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use ARIB standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.
The essential patents owned by TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION will be published as from January 1, 2020 on ULDAGE’s website.

* Dolby International AB, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, KYOCERA Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Engineering System, Inc., Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION.

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that KYOCERA Corporation has joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc.. The joining of KYOCERA Corporation to the pool, now makes the number of companies 19* which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use ARIB standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.
The essential patent owned by KYOCERA Corporation will be published as from July 1, 2019 on Uldage’s website.

* Dolby International AB, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, KYOCERA Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Maxell, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Engineering System, Inc., Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that Sharp Corporation has joined the patent pool for Satellite UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of Sharp Corporation to the pool, now makes the number of companies 18* which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite UHDTV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* Dolby International AB, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings,SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., MASPRO DENKOH CORP., Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION.

ULDAGE Inc. announced today that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has joined the patent pool for Cable UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc..

The joining of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to the pool, now makes the number of companies 8* which are licensing their essential patents for Cable UHDTV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Cable UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* FUJITSU Limited, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management and administration, announced today that it is going to make some of the standards available for the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting applicable to CATV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of approximately 700 essential patents which are relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”). Additional call for Patents was made on June 10, 2017 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the Addition of Subject Standards Regarding the Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, some of the standards, that are expected to be used mainly in BS retransmission and CATV independent broadcasting, are to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for the evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continues available. For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-002 *1	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television	Volume 1 Part3,Part5 are applicable
JCTEA STD-003 *1	Service Information for Digital Cable Television	Part 4 is applicable
JCTEA STD-007 *1	Receiver for Digital Cable Television	Part 2 is applicable
JLabs SPEC-017	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting (independent broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-018	Operational specifications for Advanced ReMUX digital broadcasting （i-HITS）
JLabs SPEC-019	Operational specifications for Advanced JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
JLabs SPEC-028	Operational Specifications for Internet Protocol Broadcasting (Independent Broadcasting)
JLabs SPEC-030	Operational Specification for Internet Protocol Video on Demand Services
JLabs SPEC-033 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (single QAM)
JLabs SPEC-034 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation (J.83 Annex C / J.183) (multiple QAM)
JLabs SPEC-035 *2	Operational specifications for Advanced Cable independent broadcasting	Excluding the part which is described as being out of scope. (Chapter 5: Appendix 1, Chapter 6: 6.12, Chapter 9: 9.5, etc.)

※The standards *1 are the ones added on June 10th, 2017, *2 are the ones added on December 21st, 2018.

(Tokyo Japan – October 1. 2018) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION *1 has joined the patent pool for Satellite UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION to the pool, now makes the number of companies 17 *2 which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite UHDTV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

*1 Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation is the company 95% of whose share is held by Hisense Electric Co., Ltd

*2 Dolby International AB, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., MASPRO DENKOH CORP., Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, TOSHIBA VISUAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
(Listed alphabetically)

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), today, announced the commencement of patent licensing activities under the system of a patent pool that collectively, and under fair and reasonable conditions, bundles and licenses the patents that are essential to the realization of the Cable UHDTV broadcasting standards, to business operators that are involved in transmission and reception of Cable UHDTV broadcasting. As for this patent licensing, the following 8 entities holding the patents that have been determined by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center, a neutral organization, to be essential to the standards, have started the licensing through ULDAGE.

(Listed alphabetically)
FUJITSU Limited, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, Maxell, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK),Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University), Toshiba Corporation

In this digital age, it has become more and more necessary to resolve patent issues under fair and reasonable conditions by simplifying the complicated rights issues and the related complex procedures. ULDAGE currently operates licenses under the patent pool system that licenses those patents that have been gathered and bundled, and determined to be essential to the standards of high definition terrestrial digital broadcasting, high definition satellite digital broadcasting, high definition digital cable broadcasting, and ultra high definition satellite digital broadcasting respectively. ULDAGE is proud to have contributed to the smooth development of the industry. The establishment of a pool of this kind relating to the Cable UHDTV standards is also thought to be another contribution to the well-being of business operators that use these standards and to the development of stable business.

With this patent licensing, it is possible for broadcasters and receiver manufacturers to receive a license of bundled patents from a number of patent holders under very reasonable conditions. For example, with respect to receivers, the rates are set at 100 yen per unit, taking into consideration the development of the market going forward.

Furthermore, ULDAGE continues to make a call for patents and sequentially adds patents that have been recognized to be essential to the Cable UHDTV broadcasting standards, aiming for further reinforcement of the patent licensing.

Moreover, with respect to those patents relating to UHDTV standards pertaining to IPTV, ULDAGE is in discussions with the patent holders about the licensing terms and conditions, and ULDAGE plans to commence licensing activities through patent pools that are similar to this Cable UHDTV broadcasting pool.

At our company’s ordinary shareholders’ meeting held on May 18th 2018, I handed over my responsibilities as President & CEO to my successor Shuichi Endo, and assumed responsibilities as Chairman, with a view to perpetuating the growth of ULDAGE Inc. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your kind and generous support. We look forward to working more closely with you in the future.

Yoshihide Nakamura
Chairman, ULDAGE Inc.

I assumed the position of President & CEO of ULDAGE Inc.
I welcome any suggestions and assistance you may offer on how we can continue to be a very trusted company, just as we must continue to persevere in our efforts to earn and maintain our trustworthiness. I hope to continue to receive your kind cooperation.

Shuichi Endo
President & CEO, ULDAGE Inc.

ULDAGE Inc., the patent pool license administrator, is pleased to report that, up to today, following digital CS110 broadcasters and ULDAGE, after long-held negotiations, have executed license agreements for patents relating to digital CS110 broadcasting.

CS Nippon Corporation , C-TBS, Incorporated , Satellite Service , CS One Ten,Ltd. , InteracTV
Co.,Ltd. , IGO & SHOGI CHANNEL INC. , INTERLOCALMEDIA CO.,LTD. , Shochiku Broadcasting Co.,Ltd. , SC Satellite Broadcasting,Ltd , M-ON! Entertainment Inc. , GAORA INCORPORATED , Kids Station Inc. , Japan CS Movie Broadcasting Inc. , SUPER NETWORK,INC.
, sky-A, Inc. , TAKARAZUKA Creative Arts CO.,LTD. , Toei Satelite TV Company,Ltd. , AXN Japan Inc. , Family Gekijo Company, Limited , BS-FOX , SKY Perfect Entertainment Corporation. , Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp. , Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd.
(in numerical order of channel)

Digital CS110 broadcasting, which started in Japan in March 2002, is provided in conformity with the so-called ARIB Standards established through discussions among the participating members of The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). The Standards reflect technologies, suggestions, and ideas of numerous broadcasters, device manufacturers, and other concerned parties, and consequently, there is a wide variety of patent holders involved in such technologies, and a large number of patents are also involved.

Unless appropriate measures are taken to tackle this kind of complex patent issue, the standards themselves or the growth of digital CS110 broadcasting business itself could be negatively affected.

ULDAGE was established in July 2006 in order to resolve such patent issue and promote the growth of the digital television broadcasting system by gathering various patents relating to digital television broadcasting in one place and then licensing them as a package through the so-called patent pooling method.

At present, ULDAGE has pooled approximately 680 patents held by 20 patent holders. Under the license program intended for receivers, which was implemented back in 2007, 151 licensee companies manufacture and sell such devices, and the program has contributed greatly to the establishment of the environment for the expansion of access to digital television in relation to the complete transition from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting.

Digital television broadcasting cannot be realized unless both ends exist: the broadcasters which send signals that comply with the ARIB Standards and the television receivers which receive such signals. Consequently, ULDAGE has long pursued negotiations with the representatives of the digital CS110 broadcasters to materialize the license program for dugital CS110 broadcasting. The recent execution of license agreements with the digital CS110 broadcasters, following the license agreements with digital terrestrial broadcasters concluded in March 2013, and the license agreements with digital BS broadcasters concluded in September 2015, is groundbreaking in that the broadcasters will now reward the patent holders, namely, the developers of the relevant technologies, by directly bearing an appropriate proportion of royalties for the use of such technologies.

As a result, the broadcasters will be able to further their broadcasting businesses in a stable condition without any concern over the issue of digital CS110 broadcasting related patents pooled with ULDAGE.

(Tokyo Japan – October 1. 2017) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that INFOCITY Inc. has joined the patent pool for Satellite UHDTV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of INFOCITY Inc. to the pool, now makes the number of companies 17* which are licensing their essential patents for Satellite UHDTV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use Satellite UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, FUJITSU Limited, INFOCITY, Inc., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., MASPRO DENKOH CORP., Maxell Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), today, announced the commencement of patent licensing activities under the system of a patent pool that collectively, and under fair and reasonable conditions, bundles and licenses the patents that are essential to the realization of the UHDTV satellite broadcasting standards, to business operators that are involved in transmission and reception of UHDTV satellite broadcasting (also known as 4K, 8K broadcasting). As for this patent licensing, the following 16 entities holding the patents that have been determined by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center, a neutral organization, to be essential to the standards, have started the licensing through ULDAGE.

(Listed alphabetically)
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., MASPROH DENKOH CORP., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (formerly known as France Telecom), Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University), Thomson Licensing S.A.S, and Toshiba Corporation.

In this digital age, it has become more and more necessary to resolve patent issues under fair and reasonable conditions by simplifying the complicated rights issues and the related complex procedures. ULDAGE currently operates licenses under the patent pool system that licenses those patents that have been gathered and bundled, and determined to be essential to the standards of high definition terrestrial digital broadcasting, high definition satellite digital broadcasting, and high definition digital cable broadcasting (also known as 2K broadcasting) respectively. ULDAGE is proud to have contributed to the smooth development of the industry. The establishment of a pool of this kind relating to the UHDTV satellite standards is also thought to be another contribution to the well-being of business operators that use these standards and to the development of stable business.

With this patent licensing, it is possible for broadcasters and receiver manufacturers to receive a license of bundled patents from a number of patent holders under very reasonable conditions. For example, with respect to receivers, the rates are set at 100 yen per unit in respect of advanced narrowband CS UHDTV receivers and 200 yen per unit in respect of advanced wideband UHDTV receivers, taking into consideration the development of the market going forward.

Furthermore, ULDAGE continues to make a call for patents and sequentially adds patents that have been recognized to be essential to the UHDTV satellite broadcasting standards, aiming for further reinforcement of the patent licensing.

Moreover, with respect to those patents relating to UHDTV standards pertaining to CATV and IPTV (for which calls for patents were commenced in April of this year), ULDAGE plans to hold discussions about the licensing terms and conditions once the holders of those patents have been determined, and ULDAGE plans to commence licensing activities through patent pools that are similar to this satellite broadcasting pool.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), patent pool license managing company, announced today that it is going to carry out the addition of subject standards regarding the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting applicable to CATV.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of more than 650 essential patents which are related to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made a substantial contribution towards the promotion and growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” by resolving the major patent issues surrounding sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of digital television broadcasting, on April 3, 2017 ULDAGE carried out a call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcasting for IPTV and CATV”).

On this occasion, with respect to the call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, standards that are expected to be used mainly in 8K broadcasting are to be added to the subject standards that are relevant in the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to the realization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including these additional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center. Also, the call for patents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards is ongoing. For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
JCTEA STD-002	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television	Volume 1 Part3,Part5 are applicable
JCTEA STD-003	Service Information for Digital Cable Television	Part 4 is applicable
JCTEA STD-007	Receiver for Digital Cable Television	Part 2 is applicable
JLabs SPEC-017	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Re-Multiplex Transmission (Access Program)
JLabs SPEC-018	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Re-Multiplex Transmission （i-HITS）
JLabs SPEC-019	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Trans-Modulation （JC-HITS）
JLabs SPEC-028	Operational Guideline for IP Broadcasting (Access Program)
JLabs SPEC-030	Operational Guideline for IP-VOD Service

※The standard underlined are the one added on June 10th, 2017.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a patent pool license managing company, announced today that it is going to make a call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television broadcasting applicable to IPTV and CATV.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of more than 600 essential patents which are related to the present digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made a substantial contribution towards the promotion and growth of the digital television broadcasting system following the full transition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” by resolving the major patent issues surrounding sales and production of broadcasting receivers and broadcasting services. Further, on August 25, 2014, ULDAGE made a call for patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K broadcasting by satellites, and now has been preparing the new licensing program.

The purpose of this new call for patents is to promote the growth of 4K/8K broadcasting by creating a “one-stop licensing program” under fair and reasonable terms to license essential patents held by a number of patent holders regardless of the types of broadcasting media, and by expanding the licensing scope of 4K/8K broadcasting to IPTV and CATV, followed by the licensing related to satellite broadcasting.

Evaluation of whether a patent is essential for the standards will be conducted by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”), which is a neutral third party institution with expertise in this field.

For any party that believes it possesses Japanese patents essential to the standards formulated by IPTV Forum Japan and standards formulated by Japan Cable Laboratories and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply for evaluation and submit such patents to JIPAC by June 30, 2017.

For more information regarding the application of essentiality evaluation, please visit JIPAC website (http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or ULDAGE website (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

Standards No.	Standard Name	Information
IPTVFJ STD-0001	Overview
IPTVFJ STD-0002	VOD Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0003	Download Specification	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0004	IP Broadcasting Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0005	Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0006	CDN Scope Service Approach Specifications
IPTVFJ STD-0007	Internet Scope Service Approach Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0008	Specifications of IPTV Service Approach by Integration with Broadcasting
IPTVFJ STD-0009	Digital Satellite Broadcasting IP Retransmission Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0010	Integrated Broadcast-Broadband System Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0011	HTML5 Browser Specification
IPTVFJ STD-0012	Operator to Operator Communication Metadata Operational Guideline	English version is not available
IPTVFJ STD-0013	Hybridcast Specifications	English version is not available
IPTVFJ DOC-0002	Hybridcast Technical Specification Service Guideline	English version is not available

IPTVFJ Standards are available from the following website ：
http://www.iptvforum.jp/download/
The IPTVFJ Standards refers to the Specifications of the Networked Digital Television
Study Group.
This Specifications are available from the following website ：
http://nw-dtv.jp/documents/index.html

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Information
Jlabs SPEC-017	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Re-Multiplex Transmission (Access Program)
Jlabs SPEC-018	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Re-Multiplex Transmission （i-HITS)
Jlabs SPEC-019	Digital Television Broadcasting Operational Guideline for Advanced Trans-Modulation （JC-HITS）
Jlabs SPEC-028	Operational Guideline for IP Broadcasting (Access Program)
Jlabs SPEC-030	Operational Guideline for IP-VOD Service

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”) announces today a 3rd additional call for patents essential to the 4K and 8K Ultra High Definition Television (“UHDTV”) standards. UHDTV is expected to be the next generation in digital television broadcasting.

ULDAGE now licenses a package of more than 600 patents relating to the current high definition television standards. This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital television broadcasting system in Japan.

Based on this experience, ULDAGE announced a call for patents essential for UHDTV standards on August 25th, 2014 (“ULDAGE ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PATENTS ESSENTIAL TO ULTRA HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION (UHDTV)”) and two additional calls for patents on January 1st, 2016 and on March 14th, 2016 (“ULDAGE ANNOUNCES ADDTIONAL CALL FOR PATENTS ESSENTIAL TO ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION (UHDTV)”).
The purpose of this 3rd additional patent call is to add a new Standard and a Technical Report established by The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) to the existing UHDTV Applicable Standards List.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the newly added UHDTV standards as well as the existing UHDTV standards to submit such patents to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”) for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information.

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Applicable Version	Applicable Part Information
ARIB STD-B1	Digital Receiver for Digital Satellite Broadcasting Services using Communication Satellites (Desirable Specification)	Version 3.0 or later	Part 2 is applicable
ARIB STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System	Version 5.4 or later	Except Part 2, Annex F; Annex J; Annex M; Annex N; Annex P; and Explanation
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.0 or later	Volume 3 (except Explanation) and Volume 4 (except Annex) are applicable
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.4 or later	Except Part 1, Chapter 5, 5.2; Part 1, Reference 4 and 5; Part 2, Appendix; Part 3; and Part 4
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 3.0 or later	Except Part 1, Appendix A; Part 2, Interpretation 1 to 3; Part 2, Annex; Part 3, Chapter 3, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.9(7); and Part 3, Appendix A
ARIB STD-B44	Transmission System for Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 2.0 or later	Except Annex B, B.3; and Appendix 1 to 3
ARIB STD-B56	UHDTV System Parameters for Programme Production	Version 1.1 or later
ARIB STD-B59	Three-Dimensional Multichannel Stereophonic Sound System For Programme Production	Version 1.0 or later
ARIB STD-B60	MMT-Based Media Transport Scheme in Digital Broadcasting Systems	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation 4 and Appendix
ARIB STD-B61	Conditional Access System (2nd Generation) and CAS Program Download System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Except Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3, 3.1; and Chapter 4, 4.6 and 4.7; Part 1, Explanation 1 and 2; Part 2, Explanation 1, 1.3 and1.4; and Volume 2, Explanation 1
ARIB STD-B62	Multimedia Coding Specification for Digital Broadcasting (2’nd Generation)	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation and Appendix
ARIB STD-B63	Receiver For Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Desirable Specifications)	Version 1.4 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
ARIB STD-B67	Essential Parameter Values For The Extended Image Dynamic Range Television (EIDRTV) System For Programme Production	Version 1.0 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
NEXTVF TR-0002	Contents Protection Requirements and Receiver Output Rule for the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0003	Technical Data about the Operation of the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0004	Operational Guideline for Advanced Wideband Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Added to this list on March 14th, 2016
ARIB TR-B39	Operational Guidelines For Advanced Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 1.1 or later

Patents related to MPEG-2 Standard, MPEG-4 Standard, H.265 (HEVC) Standard, and IEEE1394 Standard are to be excluded.

(Tokyo Japan – July 1. 2016) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (Dolby) has joined the patent pool for ARIB and CATV Standards making its essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of Dolby to the pool, now makes the number of companies 20* which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB and CATV standard through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use ARIB and CATV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, FUJITSU Limited, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.,INFOCITY, Inc., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc.,Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Engineering System, Inc., Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”) announces today a 2nd additional call for patents essential to the 4K and 8K Ultra High Definition Television (“UHDTV”) standards. UHDTV is expected to be the next generation in digital television broadcasting.

ULDAGE now licenses a package of more than 600 patents relating to the current high definition television standards. This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital television broadcasting system in Japan.

Based on this experience, ULDAGE announced a call for patents essential for UHDTV standards on August 25th, 2014 (“ULDAGE ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PATENTS ESSENTIAL TO ULTRA HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION (UHDTV)”) and an additional call for patents on January 1st, 2016 (“ULDAGE ANNOUNCES ADDTIONAL CALL FOR PATENTS ESSENTIAL TO ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION (UHDTV)”).
The purpose of this 2nd additional patent call is to add new standards established by the Next Generation Television & Broadcasting Promotion Forum (“NexTV-F”) to the existing UHDTV Applicable Standards List.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the newly added UHDTV standards as well as the existing UHDTV standards to submit such patents to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”) for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information.

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Applicable Version	Applicable Part Information
ARIB STD-B1	Digital Receiver for Digital Satellite Broadcasting Services using Communication Satellites (Desirable Specification)	Version 3.0 or later	Part 2 is applicable
ARIB STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System	Version 5.4 or later	Except Part 2, Annex F; Annex J; Annex M; Annex N; Annex P; and Explanation
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.0 or later	Volume 3 (except Explanation) and Volume 4 (except Annex) are applicable
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.4 or later	Except Part 1, Chapter 5, 5.2; Part 1, Reference 4 and 5; Part 2, Appendix; Part 3; and Part 4
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 3.0 or later	Except Part 1, Appendix A; Part 2, Interpretation 1 to 3; Part 2, Annex; Part 3, Chapter 3, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.9(7); and Part 3, Appendix A
ARIB STD-B44	Transmission System for Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 2.0 or later	Except Annex B, B.3; and Appendix 1 to 3
ARIB STD-B56	UHDTV System Parameters for Programme Production	Version 1.1 or later
ARIB STD-B60	MMT-Based Media Transport Scheme in Digital Broadcasting Systems	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation 4 and Appendix
ARIB STD-B61	Conditional Access System (2nd Generation) and CAS Program Download System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Except Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3, 3.1; and Chapter 4, 4.6 and 4.7; Part 1, Explanation 1 and 2; Part 2, Explanation 1, 1.3 and1.4; and Volume 2, Explanation 1
ARIB STD-B62	Multimedia Coding Specification for Digital Broadcasting (2’nd Generation)	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation and Appendix
ARIB STD-B63	Receiver For Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Desirable Specifications)	Version 1.4 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
ARIB STD-B67	Essential Parameter Values For The Extended Image Dynamic Range Television (EIDRTV) System For Programme Production	Version 1.0 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
NEXTVF TR-0002	Contents Protection Requirements and Receiver Output Rule for the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0003	Technical Data about the Operation of the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0004	Operational Guideline for Advanced Wideband Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Added to this list on March 14th, 2016

Patents related to MPEG-2 Standard, MPEG-4 Standard, H.265 (HEVC) Standard, and IEEE1394 Standard are to be excluded.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”) announces today an additional call for patents essential to the 4K and 8K Ultra High Definition Television (“UHDTV”) standards. UHDTV is expected to be the next generation in digital television broadcasting.

ULDAGE now licenses a package of more than 600 patents relating to the current high definition television standards. This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital television broadcasting system in Japan.

Based on this experience, ULDAGE announced a call for patents essential for UHDTV standards on August 25th, 2014 (“ULDAGE ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PATENTS ESSENTIAL TO ULTRA HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION (UHDTV)”).

The purpose of this new patent call is to add new standards established by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (“ARIB”) to the existing UHDTV Applicable Standards List after August 2014.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the newly added UHDTV standards as well as the existing UHDTV standards to submit such patents to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”) for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Applicable Version	Applicable Part Information
ARIB STD-B1	Digital Receiver for Digital Satellite Broadcasting Services using Communication Satellites (Desirable Specification)	Version 3.0 or later	Part 2 is applicable
ARIB STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System	Version 5.4 or later	Except Part 2, Annex F; Annex J; Annex M; Annex N; Annex P; and Explanation
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.0 or later	Volume 3 (except Explanation) and Volume 4 (except Annex) are applicable
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.4 or later	Except Part 1, Chapter 5, 5.2; Part 1, Reference 4 and 5; Part 2, Appendix; Part 3; and Part 4
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 3.0 or later	Except Part 1, Appendix A; Part 2, Interpretation 1 to 3; Part 2, Annex; Part 3, Chapter 3, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.9(7); and Part 3, Appendix A
ARIB STD-B44	Transmission System for Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 2.0 or later	Except Annex B, B.3; and Appendix 1 to 3
ARIB STD-B56	UHDTV System Parameters for Programme Production	Version 1.1 or later
ARIB STD-B60	MMT-Based Media Transport Scheme in Digital Broadcasting Systems	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation 4 and Appendix
ARIB STD-B61	Conditional Access System (2nd Generation) and CAS Program Download System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Except Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3, 3.1; and Chapter 4, 4.6 and 4.7; Part 1, Explanation 1 and 2; Part 2, Explanation 1, 1.3 and1.4; and Volume 2, Explanation 1
ARIB STD-B62	Multimedia Coding Specification for Digital Broadcasting (2’nd Generation)	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation and Appendix
ARIB STD-B63	Receiver For Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Desirable Specifications)	Version 1.4 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
ARIB STD-B67	Essential Parameter Values For The Extended Image Dynamic Range Television (EIDRTV) System For Programme Production	Version 1.0 or later	Added to this list in Jan. 1st 2016
NEXTVF TR-0002	Contents Protection Requirements and Receiver Output Rule for the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0003	Technical Data about the Operation of the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later

Patents related to MPEG-2 Standard, MPEG-4 Standard, H.265 (HEVC) Standard, and IEEE1394 Standard are to be excluded.

(Tokyo Japan – October 1. 2015) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that LG Electronics Inc.(LGE) has joined the patent pool for ARIB and CATV Standards making its essential patents license available through ULDAGE Inc. LGE’s joining the pool, in addition to Infocity, KDDI and Columbia University which joined on July 1st 2015, now makes 19* companies which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB and CATV standard through Uldage Inc. resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use the ARIB and CATV standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* FUJITSU Limited, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. INFOCITY, Inc. JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Engineering System, Inc., Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation

ULDAGE Inc., the patent pool license administrator, is pleased to report that, up to today, following
digital BS broadcasters and ULDAGE, after long-held negotiations, have executed license agreements
for patents relating to digital BS broadcasting.

Nippon Hoso Kyokai, BS Nippon Corporation, Asahi Satellite Broadcasting Limited, BS-TBS, INC.,BS Japan Corporation, FUJI SATELLITE BROADCASTING, INC., WOWOW INC., STARCHANNEL INC., Nippon BS Broadcasting Corporation, World Hi-Vision Channel, Inc., The Open University of Japan, The Green Channel, Animax Broadcast Japan Inc., BS-FOX, SKY Perfect Entertainment Corporation, J SPORTS Corporation, Fishing Vision Co., Ltd., IMAGICA TV Corp.,Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd.
(in numerical order of channel)

Digital BS broadcasting, which started in Japan in December 2000, is provided in conformity with the so-called ARIB Standards established through discussions among the participating members of The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). The Standards reflect technologies,suggestions, and ideas of numerous broadcasters, device manufacturers, and other concerned parties,and consequently, there is a wide variety of patent holders involved in such technologies, and a large number of patents are also involved.

Unless appropriate measures are taken to tackle this kind of complex patent issue, the standards themselves or the growth of digital BS broadcasting business itself could be negatively affected.

ULDAGE was established in July 2006 in order to resolve such patent issue and promote the growth of the digital television broadcasting system by gathering various patents relating to digital television broadcasting in one place and then licensing them as a package through the so-called patent pooling method.

At present, ULDAGE has pooled approximately 590 patents held by 18 patent holders. Under the license program intended for receivers, which was implemented back in 2007, 158 licensee companies manufacture and sell such devices, and the program has contributed greatly to the establishment of the environment for the expansion of access to digital television in relation to the complete transition from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting.

Digital television broadcasting cannot be realized unless both ends exist: the broadcasters which send signals that comply with the ARIB Standards and the television receivers which receive such signals.
Consequently, ULDAGE has long pursued negotiations with the representatives of the BS broadcasters to materialize the license program for BS digital broadcasting. The recent execution of license agreements with the BS broadcasters, following the license agreements with digital terrestrial broadcasters concluded in March 2013, is groundbreaking in that the broadcasters will now reward the patent holders, namely, the developers of the relevant technologies, by directly bearing an appropriate proportion of royalties for the use of such technologies.

As a result, the broadcasters will be able to further their broadcasting businesses in a stable condition without any concern over the issue of digital BS broadcasting related patents pooled with ULDAGE.

(Tokyo Japan – July 1, 2015) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that INFOCITY, Inc., KDDI CORPORATION and The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York have joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards, making their essential patent licenses available through ULDAGE Inc. The joining of these companies to the pool now makes the number of the companies 18* which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB standards through ULDAGE Inc., resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use ARIB standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* FUJITSU Limited, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., INFOCITY, Inc., Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK Engineering System, Inc., Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation

(Tokyo Japan – March 2, 2015) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that 17 essential patent holders, FUJITSU Limited, Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., JVC KENWOOD Corporation, KDDI CORPORATION, LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Orange SA (Formerly known as France Telecom, SA), Panasonic Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation, have started discussions on a patent pool license program for Japanese UHDTV Digital Broadcasting Standards. Each of 17 companies owns a patent that is evaluated as essential by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center(JIPAC).

ULDAGE Inc. will facilitate discussions among essential patent holders aiming for licensing essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions through a single license program.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes additional holders of essential patents and encourages them to participate in the patent pool license program. Those who are interested in the patent evaluation process may follow the procedures provided by JIPAC website
http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ .

ULDAGE Inc. made a call for patents essential to the 4K and 8K Ultra High-Definition Television (“UHDTV”) standards on August 25. UHDTV is expected to be the next generation in digital television broadcasting.

ULDAGE now licenses a package of more than 500 patents relating to the current highdefinition television standards (“ISDB”). This license has played a key role in the resolution of patent issues in the market and promoted the growth of the digital television broadcasting system in Japan.

The purpose of this call is to create a scheme of a one-stop patent license under fair and reasonable terms and to serve to promote the UHDTV market in Japan. Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (“JIPAC”), a group of independent patent experts, evaluates and determines the essentiality of the patents to the UHDTV standards.

ULDAGE encourages any party that believes it has Japanese patents essential to the UHDTV standards to submit such patents to JIPAC by December 26, 2014 for evaluation. For those who are interested in this patent call, please go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/ and http://www.uldage.com/en/ for more information.

Standards No.	Standard Name (English translation)	Applicable Version	Applicable Part Information
ARIB STD-B1	Digital Receiver for Digital Satellite Broadcasting Services using Communication Satellites (Desirable Specification)	Version 3.0 or later	Part 2 is applicable
ARIB STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System	Version 5.4 or later	Except Part 2, Annex F; Annex J; Annex M; Annex N; Annex P; and Explanation
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.0 or later	Volume 3 (except Explanation) and Volume 4 (except Annex) are applicable
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 6.4 or later	Except Part 1, Chapter 5, 5.2; Part 1, Reference 4 and 5; Part 2, Appendix; Part 3; and Part 4
ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 3.0 or later	Except Part 1, Appendix A; Part 2, Interpretation 1 to 3; Part 2, Annex; Part 3, Chapter 3, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.9(7); and Part 3, Appendix A
ARIB STD-B44	Transmission System for Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting	Version 2.0 or later	Except Annex B, B.3; and Appendix 1 to 3
ARIB STD-B56	UHDTV System Parameters for Programme Production	Version 1.1 or later
ARIB STD-B60	MMT-Based Media Transport Scheme in Digital Broadcasting Systems	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation 4 and Appendix
ARIB STD-B61	Conditional Access System (2nd Generation) and CAS Program Download System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting	Version 1.0 or later	Except Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3, 3.1; and Chapter 4, 4.6 and 4.7; Part 1, Explanation 1 and 2; Part 2, Explanation 1, 1.3 and1.4; and Volume 2, Explanation 1
ARIB STD-B62	Multimedia Coding Specification for Digital Broadcasting (2’nd Generation)	Version 1.0 or later	Except Explanation and Appendix
NEXTVF TR-0002	Contents Protection Requirements and Receiver Output Rule for the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later
NEXTVF TR-0003	Technical Data about the Operation of the 4K Broadcasting using the Advanced Narrowband Transmission System	Version 1.0 or later

Patents related to MPEG-2 Standard, MPEG-4 Standard, H.265(HEVC) Standard, and IEEE1394 Standard are to be excluded.

ULDAGE Inc., the patent pool license administrator, is pleased to report that, up to today, the
respective digital terrestrial broadcasters, namely, each of the 127 members of The Japan Commercial
Broadcasters Association, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), and The Open University of Japan, and
ULDAGE, after long-held negotiations, have executed license agreements for patents relating to
digital terrestrial broadcasting.
Digital terrestrial broadcasting, which started in Japan in December 2003, is provided in conformity
with the so-called ARIB Standards established through discussions among the participating members
of The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). The Standards reflect technologies,
suggestions, and ideas of numerous broadcasters, device manufacturers, and other concerned parties,
and consequently, there is a wide variety of patent holders involved in such technologies, and a large
number of patents are also involved.
Unless appropriate measures are taken to tackle this kind of complex patent issue, the standards
themselves or the growth of digital terrestrial broadcasting business itself could be negatively affected.
ULDAGE was established in July 2006 in order to resolve such patent issue and promote the growth
of the digital television broadcasting system by gathering various patents relating to digital television
broadcasting in one place and then licensing them as a package through the so-called patent pooling
method.
At present, ULDAGE has pooled approximately 500 patents held by 14 patent holders. Under the
license program intended for receivers, which was implemented back in 2007, 161 licensee companies
manufacture and sell such devices, and the program has contributed greatly to the establishment of the
environment for the expansion of access to digital television in relation to the complete transition from

(DENVER, CO, US – 15 September 2009) – World leading patent pool licensing administrator MPEG
LA, LLC, and Japanese patent pool administrator ULDAGE Inc. today announced a cooperation under
which ULDAGE will offer MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Systems License along with ULDAGE’s ARIB
license to companies based in Japan that sell mobile TV handsets for Japan’s One-Seg mobile
terrestrial broadcasting service. One-Seg mobile TV handsets use both the Transport Layer of the
MPEG-2 Systems Standard covered by MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Systems License and the ARIB One-Seg
digital broadcast standard covered by ULDAGE’s ARIB License. Therefore, One-Seg handset
manufacturers need coverage under patents essential to both standards and would benefit from both
licenses.

“This collaboration marks two firsts,” said MPEG LA President and CEO Larry Horn. “It is the first time
that two joint licensing administrators have joined forces. It is also the first time that a joint license has
been offered covering patents essential to multiple standards utilized in a single product. We are
especially thrilled to be able to do this with ULDAGE, whom we hold in the highest regard for its
successful licensing of the Japanese market. We share a rich history and common values serving our
customers and the market with licensing products of increasing convenience.”

“Doing this venture with MPEG LA holds special significance for us,” said ULDAGE President and CEO
Yoshihide Nakamura. “MPEG LA ushered in the age of patent pool licensing bringing new efficiencies
to the patent licensing market. Now together we usher in the age of product licensing. In response to
market demand, through the cooperative effort of our companies each representing the gold standard in joint licensing, we are bringing new licensing products to market that will benefit the industry and its
consumers.”

One-Seg is a mobile terrestrial digital audio, video and data broadcasting service used in Japan.
ULDAGE’s ARIB Essential Patent License provides a license under Japanese Digital Broadcasting
Standards including One-Seg that were developed by the Association of Radio Industries and
Businesses (“ARIB”).

The MPEG-2 Systems Standard defines how to format the various components of multiplexer programs and combine them into a single program or transport stream. Where the standard is used without licensed MPEG-2 video encoders or decoders, such as in One-Seg handset and other mobile television and audio receivers and certain set-top boxes and cameras, MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License
provides coverage under essential patents.

(Tokyo Japan - October 1, 2008) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that the Patent Pool License for Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards is now available. The License includes essential patents owned by the following 15 companies.

France Telecom/Telediffusion de France, FUJITSU LIMITED, Hitachi, Ltd., Kenwood Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Panasonic Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Thomson Licensing S.A., Toshiba Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Limited.

These 15 companies agreed on the following license terms for launching the license program through ULDAGE. The royalties relating to digital cable broadcasting are, in case of receiving devices, JPY100 per unit for digital terrestrial trans-modulation receiving devices; JPY150 per unit for digital terrestrial pass-through/trans-modulation receiving devices.

Technology transition from analog to digital has made the patent issues more complicated. The Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards License will simplify it by licensing as a package multiple essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions. ULDAGE Inc. believes that the establishment of this license scheme will help ensure a stable business environment for those engaged in the business of digital cable broadcasting.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents and hopes that this patent license program will expand further.

(Tokyo Japan - August 8, 2008) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that the Patent Pool License for Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards is scheduled to be available in October, 2008. The License includes essential patents owned by at least following 13 companies.

Kenwood Corporation, France Telecom/Telediffusion de France, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Thomson Licensing S.A., Toshiba Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Limited.

The discussion among those 13 companies took place since May 2008 and they agreed on the following terms of license for launching the license program. The royalties relating to digital cable broadcasting are, in case of receiving devices, JPY100 per unit for digital terrestrial trans-modulation receiving devices; JPY150 per unit for digital terrestrial pass-through/trans-modulation receiving devices.

Technology transition from analog to digital has made the patent issues more complicated. The Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards License will simplify it by licensing as a package multiple essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions. ULDAGE Inc. believes that the establishment of this license scheme will help ensure a stable business environment to those engaged in the business of digital cable broadcasting.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents and hopes that this patent license program will expand further.

(Tokyo Japan - February 25, 2008) ULDAGE Inc., a patent license company, announced today that Toshiba Corporation and Hitachi, Ltd. have become shareholders of ULDAGE. By welcoming Toshiba and Hitachi as new shareholders in addition to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation and Victor Company of Japan, Limited, the financial foundation of ULDAGE will be more solid.

As attention has been drawn to the patent pool as an effective tool in handling intellectual property in the digital age, further expectations for its usefulness will grow in an area where a standardization of the technologies is imperative. The participation of Toshiba and Hitachi at this time is considered to be consistent with such expectations.

ULDAGE administers 15 companies' essential patents (ARIB standards) for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting, BS Digital Broadcasting, CS Digital Broadcasting, One Seg broadcasting, etc., under fair and reasonable conditions. In the future, ULDAGE will administer essential patents for cable broadcasting as well.

(Tokyo Japan - December 21, 2007) ULDAGE Inc., a patent license company today issued a call for patents that are essential to the Japanese Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards developed by the following:

• Japan Cable Television Engineering Association (JCTEA Standards)
• Japan Cable Laboratories (JCL Operational Specification)
• Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB Standards)

The purpose of the call is to evaluate and determine patents that are essential to the standards in order to include them in a joint patent license, which will be provided under fair and reasonable terms and will serve to promote the digital cable broadcasting market in Japan.

A summary of patent submissions and evaluations is as follows:

1. Patents to be submitted are those that are :

• (1) technically essential to implementation of the following JCTEA Standards, JCL Operational Specification, and ARIB Standards. and
• (2) issued in Japan

• Number	Standards Title
  JCTEA STD-001	Conditional Access System for Digital Cable Television
  JCTEA STD-002	Multiplex System for Digital Cable Television
  JCTEA STD-003	Service Information for Digital Cable Television
  JCTEA STD-007	Receiver for Digital Cable Television
  JCTEA STD-011	Pass-through Method for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Signals over Cable Television System
  JCTEA STD-012	Head-Amplifier for Retransmitting Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting over Cable Television System
  JCL SPEC-001	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
  JCL SPEC-001-01	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Detailed specifications of illegal usage protection function
  JCL SPEC-001-02	Operational specifications for BS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation Operational specifications for download function
  JCL SPEC-002	Operational specifications for 110°E longitude CS digital broadcasting Trans-Modulation
  JCL SPEC-003	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting (independent broadcasting)
  JCL SPEC-004	Operational specifications for ReMUX digital broadcasting (i-HITS)
  JCL SPEC-005	Operational specifications for JC-HITS Trans-Modulation
  JCL SPEC-006	Operational specifications for Pass-Through terrestrial digital broadcasting and independent broadcasting
  JCL SPEC-007	Operational specifications for Trans-Modulation terrestrial broadcasting and independent broadcasting
  ARIB STD-B20	Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting
  ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting
  ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
  ARIB STD-B31	Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
  ARIB STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
  ARIB TR-B14	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
  ARIB TR-B15	Operational Guidelines for Digital Satellite Broadcasting
  Other ARIB Standards	Other ARIB Standards quoted in JCTEA Standards and JCL Operational Specification as requirement

• Patents related to MPEG-2 Video Standards, MPEG-4 Video Standards, H.264/MPEG-4AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards administrated by already existing patent license schemes and Broadcasting System Based on Home Servers are excluded.

• (3) If your patent is one of the ARIB essential patent portfolios and essential to only ARIB Standards above, another evaluation process is available.

2.[ Contact ]	Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC) Secretariat Benrishikaikan Bldg.
	3-4-2 Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-0013
	PHONE / FAX	:	+81-3-3500-3793 / +81-3-3500-3839
	E-Mail	:

3. Schedule for Patent Submissions and Evaluations (Plan)

December 21st, 2007	Call for Patent Submissions
The end of February 2008	Closing of Initial Submissions (Essential Patent Holders as of this date will be invited to the first Patent Holders' Meeting. Patent Submissions and Evaluations shall be continued thereafter.)
The end of May 2008	The First Patent Holders' Meeting

ULDAGE will send an invitation to the Patent Holders' Meeting to those who have patents evaluated as essential to JCTEA, JCL and ARIB Standards.

4. Evaluation Fee:

Any party that wishes to submit patents for evaluation is requested to pay an Evaluation Fee to the Evaluator. The evaluation fee is determined in accordance with the rule of JIPAC, depending upon the number of claims that it believes are essential to JCTEA, JCL and ARIB Standards.

For a patent which has one or two claims per patent: 800,000JPY
For a patent which has three or four claims per patent: 1,000,000JPY
For a patent which has five claims or more per patent: 100,000 JPY is added
The reconfirmation of essentiality of patents costs 50,000 JPY per patent.

For more information, please visit http://www.uldage.com. Those who are interested in the patent evaluation process may go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp (JAPANESE LANGUAGE ONLY).

(Tokyo Japan - March 5, 2007) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that THOMSON Licensing S.A.S (Thomson) has joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards making its essential patents license available through ULDAGE Inc. Thomson's joining the pool now makes 11* companies which are licensing their essential patents for ARIB standards through Uldage Inc. resulting in further simplification of the complicated patent issues for those who use the ARIB standards.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents so as to further expand the program.

* France Telecom /Teledifusion de France, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Limited.

(Tokyo Japan - February 1, 2007) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that the Patent Pool License for ARIB Standards (ARIB Essential Patent License) is now available. The License includes essential patents owned by France Telecom Teledifusion de France, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Limited.

The above companies have finally agreed on the following terms of license for launching the license program: manufacturers or distributors of digital broadcasting devices shall pay, for instance, JPY 200 per unit for television set receiving digital BS, CS and terrestrial broadcasting; JPY 100 per unit for television set receiving digital terrestrial broadcasting only; JPY 50 per unit for mobile terminal receiving digital terrestrial broadcasting called "One Seg" only.

Technology transition from analog to digital has made the patent issues more complicated. The ARIB Essential Patent License will simplify it by licensing as a package multiple essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions. ULDAGE Inc. believes that the establishment of this license scheme will help manufacturers and distributors ensure stable supply of digital broadcasting devices.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes having additional holders of essential patents and hopes that this patent license program will expand further.

(Tokyo Japan - November 10, 2006) ULDAGE Inc. announced today that 10 essential patent holders, France Télécom, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Limited, have started discussions on a patent pool license program for Japanese Digital Broadcasting Standards ("ARIB Standards"). Each of 10 companies owns a patent that is evaluated as essential by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC).

ULDAGE Inc. will facilitate discussions among essential patent holders aiming for licensing essential patents held by multiple patent holders under fair and reasonable conditions through a single license program.

ULDAGE Inc. welcomes additional holders of essential patents and encourages them to participate in the patent pool license program. Those who are interested in the patent evaluation process may follow the procedures provided by JIPAC website http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp (JAPANESE LANGUAGE ONLY).

(Tokyo Japan - August 8, 2006) ULDAGE Inc., a patent license company, today issued a call for patents that are essential to the Japanese Digital Broadcasting Standards developed by Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB Standards). The purpose of the call is to evaluate and determine patents that are essential to the standards in order to include them in a joint patent license, which will be provided under fair and reasonable terms and will serve to promote the digital broadcasting market in Japan.

A summary of patent submissions and evaluations is as follows:

1. Patents to be submitted:

Patents that are:

• (1) technically essential to implementation of the following ARIB Standards, and

• (2) issued in Japan

• Number	ARIB Standards Title
  STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System
  STD-B20	Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting
  STD-B21	Receiver for Digital Broadcasting
  STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting
  STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
  STD-B29	Transmission System For Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting
  STD-B30	Receiver For Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting
  STD-B31	Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
  STD-B32	Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
  TR-B13	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting
  TR-B14	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
  TR-B15	Operational Guidelines for Digital Satellite Broadcasting

• Patents related to MPEG-2 Video Standards, MPEG-4 Video Standards, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards, and Broadcasting System Based on Home Servers are excluded.

2. Patent Evaluation:

The Evaluator, Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC), is an independent patent expert, and will evaluate patents for essentiality to ARIB Standards.

[ Contact ]	Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC) Secretariat Benrishikaikan Bldg.
	3-4-2 Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-0013
	PHONE / FAX	:	+81-3-3500-3793 / +81-3-3500-3839
	E-Mail	:

3. Schedule for Patent Submissions and Evaluations (Plan)

Aug. 8, 2006	Call for Patent Submissions
Sep. 8, 2006	Closing of Initial Submission (Essential Patent Holders as of this date will be invited to the first Patent Holders' Meeting. Patent Submissions and Evaluations shall be continued thereafter.)
Nov. mid, 2006	The First Patent Holders' Meeting

ULDAGE will send an invitation for the Patent Holders' Meeting to those who have a patent evaluated as essential to ARIB Standard.

4. Evaluation Fee:

Any party that wishes to submit patents for evaluation is requested to pay an Evaluation Fee to the Evaluator. Evaluation fee is determined in accordance with the rule of JIPAC, depending upon the number of claims that it believes are essential to ARIB Standards.

For a patent which has one or two claims per patent: 800,000JPY
For a patent which has three or four claims per patent: 1,000,000JPY
For a patent which has five claims or more per patent: 1,000,000JPY plus 100,000JPY per additional one (1) claim (accruing from the fifth claim)

For more information, please see http://www.uldage.com. Those who are interested in patent evaluation process may go to http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp (JAPANESE LANGUAGE ONLY).