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Via Licensing Announces Patent Licensing Terms For Interactive Television Services

San Francisco — Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce licensing terms for patents essential to the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Multimedia Home Platform 1.0 standard (MHP 1.0) including terms for MHP services provided by non-subscription-based broadcasters (free-to-air broadcasters).

Holders of patents essential to the MHP standard that are participating in the formation of the joint-licensing program for MHP include Comcast, Open TV, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.), Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Thomson, and Time Warner Cable. Via Licensing is acting as the licensing administrator for the pool.

As the purpose of the pool is to promote wide adoption of MHP by the market, license fees for MHP services broadcasted free-to-air will not be charged by the MHP patent pool before January 1, 2009. At the end of this incentive period, the license fees outlined below for MHP services provided by free-to-air broadcasters will be assessed on a per-

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