Sisvel offers a royalty-bearing, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-exclusive license, with no right to grant sublicenses, under patents essential to the DVB-S2 standard (adopted by ETSI as formally specified in the ETSI document EN 302 307 Part 1).
The DVB-S2 Portfolio License Agreement offered by Sisvel covers any Professional product implementing a DVB-S2 encoding or decoding functionality.
The DVB-S2 Portfolio License Agreement does not cover transport streams or audio or video coding specifications that may be referenced in such ETSI document.
The DVB-S2 Portfolio license has a non-refundable entrance fee of 3.000,00 Euros and the royalty rates during each calendar year are as follows:
| Type of S2 Licensed Product | Royalty Rate per Unit |
|---|---|
| S2 Licensed Consumer Products | € 0.60 |
| S2 Licensed Professional Products Retail value less than € 800 per unit |
€ 0.60 |
| S2 Licensed Professional Products Retail value € 800 or more per unit |
€ 18.00 |
Royalty statements and payments for royalties accrued during each calendar quarter are due within one month after the end of that quarter.
Our standard DVB-S2 Patent Portfolio License Agreement for Professional Products can be found here.