Sisvel has the right to grant non-exclusive licenses under patents owned or controlled by a variety of innovative companies, including:

• Dolby
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
• Ericsson
• GE
• Ideahub Inc.
• InterDigital
• IP Bridge
• JVCKENWOOD Corporation
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
• Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• NTT Docomo
• Orange S.A.
• Toshiba Corporation
• Sejong University
• SK Telecom
• Xylene*

*Patents held by Xylene S.A. are patents previously held by Mitsubishi Electric Corp

With regards to Sisvel’s VP9 licensing program, some of the participating patent owners had entered into an agreement covering the VP8 Video Format and further provided for sublicensing those VP8 techniques in one next-generation VPx video codec (namely the Google-MPEG LA agreement – “Google and MPEG LA Announce Agreement Covering VP8 Video Format” – https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/n-13-03-07.pdf [mpegla.com]).

In the creation of Sisvel’s VP9 licensing program, Sisvel and the patent owners have taken the extreme care and due diligence they were able to perform in the patent review and have believe the program offers licenses only to the VP9 specification patents which have not already been licensed under the aforementioned agreement.

The Video Coding Licensing Platform, containing the two VP9 and AV1 licensing programs, remains open to additional patent owners with relevant patents that are available to widely license to users of these technologies and thus add to the efficiency of the Platform. Sisvel thus invites all parties with patents believed to be necessary to practice the VP9 or AV1 specifications to contact Sisvel and submit those patent(s) for an evaluation by the program’s designated, independent evaluators.