DMP patents

The Digital Media Project (DMP) is a non-profit organization devoted to developing worldwide standards for music, video and other creative works that are digitally recorded and transmitted.  Such standards allow the rights of creators to be compensated for their works, allow the public to fully enjoy the benefits of digital recordings, and allow other businesses to provide products and services consistent with these principles and the Digital Media Manifesto.  www.dmpf.org. 

DMP was founded by Mr. Leonardo Chiariglione, who developed worldwide standards for digital audio and video coding, such as MP3 and MPEG, while chairing the working group of the International Standards Organization ISO/IEC.  In February 2006, DMP produced a technical Specification for a Platform for Interoperable Digital Rights Management, for which it would be beneficial to establish a patent pool in order to have clear and acceptable licensing terms for the underlying patents. 

One of the members of the Digital Media Project is helping set up the patent pool:  Sisvel, S.p.A., a company with an international network specialized in licensing, with offices in Europe and subsidiaries in America and Asia, will arrange for a team of independent patent experts to evaluate patents that may be essential in this field.

Please submit patents for evaluation as soon as possible to Sisvel at segreteria@sisvel.it.

In the near future, Sisvel will arrange a meeting of the
owners of essential patents, in order to discuss the future licensing policy, and eventually appointing a patent administrator to administer the patent pool. 

If you have any questions please contact segreteria@sisvel.it