DVB-S2

Patent owners

The DVB-S2 patents licensed by Sisvel are owned by:

• DTVG Licensing, LLC

• RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.

• ST Engineering iDirect (Europe) CY N.V.

• The European Space Agency (ESA)

• WORK Microwave GmbH

Patents

Sisvel has the right to grant non-exclusive licences to the patents listed in the documentation provided via the below link.

The table in this document allows interested parties to understand how the SEPs offered under the DVB-S2 are utilised by products complying to such standard and, to this end, indicates relevant standard, versions of the standard and sections of the standard, in relation to the DVB-S2 offer.

DVB-S2 Patent Technical Coverage

Patent call

Sisvel is organising this licensing programme to make DVB-S2 technology accessible to all users on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.

Sisvel invites all parties that have patents or patent applications they believe to be essential to the DVB-S2 standard to submit their patent(s) and application(s) for an evaluation of essentiality by the independent patent experts indicated by Sisvel.

Licence Terms

Sisvel offers a royalty-bearing, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-exclusive licence, with no right to grant sublicences, to 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 Licence Agreement offered by Sisvel covers any professional product implementing a DVB-S2 encoding or decoding functionality.

The DVB-S2 Portfolio Licence Agreement does not cover transport streams or audio or video coding specifications that may be referenced in such ETSI document.

The DVB-S2 Portfolio licence has a non-refundable entrance fee of 3,000.00 Euros and the royalty rates during each calendar year are as follows:

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 Licence Agreement for Professional Products can be found here.

List of licensees