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:
| Licensed Products for the period prior to the Effective Date of the Agreement | Royalty Rate per Unit |
|---|---|
| All units prior to the Effective Date | 0.88 € per each decoder function 0.88 € per each encoder function 1.76 € per unit with both decoder and encoder functions |
| Cumulative number of Licensed Products as of the Effective Date | Royalty Rate per Unit |
|---|---|
| On those from 1 to 500,000 units | 0.88 € per each decoder function 0.88 € per each encoder function 1.76 € per unit with both decoder and encoder functions |
| On those exceeding 500,000 units | 0.44 € per each decoder function 0.44 € per each encoder function 0.88 € per unit with both decoder and encoder functions |
- (a) Each Licensed Professional Products with a retail value less than 800€ per unit shall have the same royalty rates as for Licensed Products indicated above;
- (b) Each Licensed Professional Products with a retail value 800€ or more, but less than 12,000€ per unit, shall have the royalty rates under TIER 1 indicated below;
- (c) Each Licensed Professional Products with a retail value at or above 12,000€ per unit, shall have the royalty rates under TIER 2 indicated below;
| Cumulative number of Licensed Professional Products | Royalty Rates per Unit TIER 1 | Royalty Rates per Unit TIER 2 |
|---|---|---|
| On those from 1 to 200 units | 26.00 € | 52.00 € |
| On those from 201 to 2,000 units | 13.00 € | 26.00 € |
| On those exceeding 2,000 units | 9.00 € | 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.