Royalty Report: Telecommunications Svcs & Equip, Technical Know How, VOIP – Collection: 110642

License Grant

Plaintiff has alleged that Defendant breached its obligations under the Option Agreement, including, but not necessarily limited to, failing to pay Plaintiff all of the royalty payments owed to him under the Option Agreement.  The parties now desire to resolve and compromise the claims and issues presented in this litigation and all other issues and claims that have or could have been asserted arising from the Dispute and hereby enter into this Agreement.

License Property

Technology shall mean any and all products utilizing, directly or indirectly, any SONET-based equipment, including but not limited to Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) products, Sonet LYNX products, Omni LYNX products, Fibre Trax products, and products using the OC-1 through OC-12 (and beyond) modules, and related equipment such as Ethernet cards, paddleboards, video modules and sub-modules, voice modules, chassis, ring generators, and internal power supplies.

Field of Use

The Company believes communications quality and performance is ensured through the use of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technologies.

The Company's objective is to provide a new generation of intelligent and flexible communications platforms designed to allow customers to combine their current voice, data and video networks (TI, H.320, H.323, DS3, RS.232, V.35, Ethernet, etc.) into a single communications network, which would also enable them to upgrade their communications into the latest generation of high-speed communication technologies (SONET/SDH, ATM, Fast Ethernet, IP switching, etc.) while using a single network management system.

License Grant

The Company entered into a patent License Agreement with a third party.

Field of Use

Licensee designs, develops and markets technologies and products for enabling the transmission of voice data voice over IP  gateways and ATM access devices over packet networks. The Company's products are designed to enable customers to build packet voice networking equipment that provides comparable communication quality to that of the traditional telephone networks.

License Grant

Licensor grants a worldwide, perpetual, nontransferable license under the PowerStream IP
– to make, use, create, develop, sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, distribute, market, commercialize, export and/or import Products anywhere in or throughout the world;
– to have Products made, used, created, developed, sold, offered for sale, rented, leased, distributed, marketed, commercialized, exported and/or imported anywhere in or throughout the world, provided that Licensee may not have Products made, created or developed by a Competitor of Licensor without Licensors prior written consent; and
– to grant sublicenses, which may authorize further sublicensing through one or more layers of sublicensees, to third parties, provided that Licensee may not grant such sublicenses to a Competitor of Licensor without Licensors prior written consent.

License Property

Licensor is the owner of and is developing certain technologies for communications over various media, including powerlines and copper telephone wire, that are degraded by noise, signal attenuation and/or signal distortion

Powerstream Technology means Licensors high speed powerline technology, which includes a synchronizer, a digital equalizer, a modulator/demodulator, a forward error correction encoder/decoder, an error detection encoder/decoder, physical layer management, segmentation and reassembly, link protocol, quality of service, and applicable interfaces.

MWB Technology means that multiple wideband, high speed communications technology being jointly developed by Licensor and Licensee, a High-Data-Rate Long Distance Communications for Noisy and Attenuated Media such as VDSL, rev. 1.00, and which will be further developed jointly by Licensor and Licensee pursuant to this Agreement.

Products means products that are designed for use only in the Field implementing the PowerStream Technology and/or MWB Technology and that, but for the provisions of this Agreement, would infringe the PowerStream IP and/or MWB IP.

The patents are for Power Line Communication System, Method and Apparatus for Data Encoding and Communication Over Noisy Media, Reconfigurable On-Demand Telephone and Data Line System, Wideband Communication System Using Delay Line Clock Multiplier, Token Passing Arrangement For Power Line Communication System, Digital Equalization Process and Mechanism, and, Error Correction Process and Mechanism.

Field of Use

The Field means transmission products for any portion of the telecommunications network comprised of copper telephone wire between and including the carriers facility and the termination of that wire at the access point at the user premises, including in-building copper telephone wire cable riser applications in multi-tenant units (MTUs) and multi-dwelling buildings (MDUs). Other in-building applications are not included in the Field.

License Grant

The Company hereby grants a nonsublicensable, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license and right to use the CPU, DLP, shelves and backplane technology of the Universal Modular Carrier 1000 (TM) ('UMC 1000') Products.

License Property

The UMC 1000 is a cost-effective, multi-service digital loop carrier system was designed and developed to enable small to mid-size telecommunications companies and other service providers to connect subscribers to the central office switch for voice and data communications.  

The UMC 1000 consists of a variety of multi-service access platforms with integrated optics and intelligent customer premises equipment.  The platform utilizes a hybrid asynchronous transfer mode/time division multiplexing (ATM/TDM) architecture which provides a variety of loop interfaces for narrowband analog and digital services including plain old telephone service (POTS), integrated services digital network (ISDN), 1.544/2.048 million bits per second point-to-point dedicated digital circuit (T-1/E-1), high bit rate digital subscriber line (HDSL/HDSL2), and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services.

This platform also enables the delivery of broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies including discrete multitone (G.DMT), ADSL, G.Lite, HDSL, HDSL2, symmetrical digital subscriber line (SDSL), and very high data rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) (collectively referred to as 'xDSL') services to end users not served directly from a central office.  These services are supported over various feeder transmission technologies including copper, fiber, and wireless.  We also design and manufacture environmentally hardened outside plant cabinets and technology ranging from 48 to 2,000 lines, as well as indoor cabinets ranging from 48 to 480 lines.  We believe we were the first vendor to ship ADSL modules that integrate ADSL circuits, POTS circuits, and splitters onto a single ADSL x+y(TM) line card for environmentally hardened multi-service access systems.

Field of Use

The purpose of the license is for developing, having developed, manufacturing, having manufactured, maintaining, enhancing and modifying and distributing Coax RF Transceivers which plug into any current or future AFC shelf/assemblies. An EMS Interface based upon SNMP and/or Q3 for network management provided, however, that AFC shall be obligated to make the Hardware modifications to the DLP and CPU System Software changes to support Tellabs' requirements for the EMS Interface; RF Access Products that communicate with the RF Transceivers referenced above. Such RF Access Products will have a coax RF modem as the transceiver interface to the UMC 1000 Products.  The data interfaces on the RF Access Products cannot be used as a transceiver to any additional digital loop carrier equipment or any equipment used by the service provider to derive voice services; and Any mechanical products or designs outside of the UMC 1000 Product plug-in cards, shelf and/or backplane.  Such RF Access Products will have a coax RF modem as the transceiver interface to the UMC 1000 Products.

License Grant

The Korean Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, make, have made, copy, publish, modify, improve, prepare derivative works based on, market, distribute, lease, and sell the Serial Link Technology.

License Property

Licensor has developed certain Serial Link Technology.  The serial link is a point-to-point, differential, communication interconnect technology, implementable in low-cost, scaleable CMOS process technologies.

Serial link technology is the basis for the physical layer, which performs the electrical signalling, in several data communication protocols, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Asynchronous Transfer Mode. This technology converts data into into a serial stream that is transmitted sequentially at a constant rate and then reconstituted into its original form. Our high-speed serial link technology includes a number of proprietary elements designed to address the significant challenge of ensuring that the data sent to the display can be accurately recovered after it has been separated and transmitted in serial streams over three separate wires. These include proprietary oversampling techniques to reduce errors in distinguishing data from noise and parallel data recovery algorithms to recover data from the serial streams. In order to enable the display to recognize this data at the proper time and rate, our digital serial link technology uses a digital phase-locked loop combined with a unique phase detecting and tracking method in order to monitor the timing of the data. These circuit techniques allow for mostly digital implementation of a high speed serial link that can be manufactured using standard CMOS processes. We can readily apply our high-speed serial link technology to all three types of serial transmission methods currently used in communications systems synchronous, asynchronous, and plesiochronous.

Field of Use

This agreement is for use solely in two fields transmitting video information, and an undisclosed field.