Sisvel offers a royalty-bearing, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-exclusive license, with no right to grant sublicenses, under patents essential to the DVB-S2X standard (adopted by ETSI as formally specified in the ETSI document EN 302 307 Part 2).
The DVB-S2X Portfolio License Agreement offered by Sisvel covers any Consumer and/or Professional product implementing a DVB-S2X encoding or decoding functionality.
The DVB-S2X Portfolio License Agreement does not cover transport streams or audio or video coding specifications that may be referenced in such ETSI document.
The DVB- S2X Portfolio license has a non-refundable entrance fee of 3.000,00 Euros and the royalty rates are as follows:
| Type of Licensed Product | Royalty Rate per unit |
|---|---|
| Licensed Consumer Products | 0.50 € (fifty Euro cents) |
| Licensed Professional Products* | 15.00 € (fifteen Euros) |
Royalty statements and payments for royalties accrued during each calendar quarter are due within one month after the end of that quarter.
*Sisvel's rights to grant sublicenses under the Sony’s patents for DVB-S2X Consumer Products exclude Standalone Displays.
“Standalone display” shall mean a standalone television or monitor designed primarily for consumer use, regardless of who purchases the device (whether an individual or an enterprise, and including, for clarity, enterprise versions of devices sold to mass market consumers without substantial customization for specialized or niche enterprise markets), with a direct view display, designed or adapted to provide visual presentation of video, alphanumeric and/or graphic information transmitted over terrestrial broadcast, cable, internet protocol, and/or satellite television systems, and/or from an external set top box, computer, gaming console, character generator or other similar types of equipment, including all Components that are incorporated into such standalone televisions and monitors solely to the extent such Components are actually incorporated therein. “Standalone Display” shall not include vehicular displays. “Standalone Display” shall also include displays with secondary integrated computing capability (e.g. “Smart TVs”) and any separate device sold with such standalone television or monitor with an integral capability to receive, process/decode, and display content contained in compressed digital audio and/or video signals (e.g. MPEG-2, HEVC, AVC, MP3) over broadcast, cablecast, satellite, internet or similar communications systems from a geographically remote source (excluding short range connections, such as VGA, DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort). “Standalone Display” shall exclude any wearable device, mobile phone, smartphone, or portable media player or gaming device, and/or any desktop, tablet, laptop, or notebook computer.
Our standard DVB-S2X Patent Portfolio License Agreement for Consumer and Professional Products can be found here.