Royalty Report: Telecommunications Svcs & Equip, Mobile, Wireless – Collection: 215230

License Grant

The Licensor and Japanese Licensee, the parties, entered an existing Patent License Agreement covering certain time division multiple access or TDMA-based products manufactured and sold by Licensee.  A substantial dispute has arisen between the parties as to whether royalties are owed by Licensee for its sale in Japan of Covered Infrastructure Units and Covered Subscriber Units compliant with the PHS and PDC Covered Standards.

The parties have agreed upon a settlement of the dispute, wherein the settlement provides:(i) for certain amendments to the Prior Agreement, the principal amendment providing for certain payments to ITC in lump sum amounts in exchange for a paid-up license for Covered Subscriber Units and Covered Infrastructure Units compliant with PHS and PDC Covered Standards, and (ii) for a new license agreement (this 3G Agreement) involving Covered Subscriber Units and Covered Infrastructure Units compliant with Narrowband CDMA and Third Generation

With this agreement, Licensor, for itself and its Affiliates, hereby grants to Licensee and its Affiliates a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license under the Licensed Patents to make, have made, use, import, sell and otherwise dispose of Covered Subscriber Units and Covered Infrastructure Units, including the right to make, have made, use, import, and otherwise dispose of components therefor, or the supply of replacement parts therefor.

License Property

'Licensed Patents' means any issued patent relating to TDMA or CDMA-based digital wireless communications and similar patent applications.

This agreement is for over 100 patents registered throughout the world.  The licensed patents mostly relate to the telecommunications and broadcasting industry.

'Combi-Unit' means any Subscriber Unit which has substantial functionality unrelated to basic voice or wireless data transmission, such as video phones, personal digital assistant, computers, and the like, but which performs modulation and demodulation.

'Communication Card' means a Subscriber Unit in card or similar format (e.g. PCMCIA card) which contains at a minimum all of the circuitry necessary for modulation and demodulation in accordance with one or more Covered Standards and may be readily attachable to, and detachable from, the body of an end-user terminal device, whether fixed, mobile, transportable, vehicular, portable or hand-held, with RF transmit and/or RF receive capabilities by end-user. A Communication Card shall include all attachments necessary to enable the information and/or communication unit to transmit and receive wireless communications.

'Infrastructure Unit' means mobile switching centers, radio network controllers, service nodes, Node B's, base stations, radio resource management devices and software, base station controllers, digital transceivers, digital channel cards, and software necessary to operate the aforementioned devices (including software maintenance agreements to the extent that free upgrades are provided in exchange for the maintenance fee, or to the extent that the software maintenance provides an upgrade or enhancement as to functionality), whether sold as individual items or bundled as an integrated product, which is used to interconnect a Covered Subscriber Unit to a public or private data or voice network (whether wired or unwired), including the internet. Subject to the foregoing, absent some substantial difference in design and/or function of Infrastructure Units, the parties agree, generally, the interpretation of Infrastructure Equipment and Net Selling Price (as defined in the Prior Agreement), and used in the arbitration, including for audit purposes, shall generally be considered acceptable guidelines in determining the royalty base hereunder.

'Narrowband CDMA' means standards for direct sequence code division multiple access digital cellular radiotelephone service adopted as a standard by either a standards development organization – such as ETSI, TIA/EIA or ARIB- or a major operator of public subscription systems for in-country requirements (e.g. frequency spectrum availability, interconnection with preexisting telephony networks, etc.) which limit the spread of the signal over a bandwidth not greater than 1.25 MHz, including, but not limited to, IS-95 Rev.A, IS-95 Rev. B and various derivations thereof that do not fundamentally alter the character thereof.

1,031,038 PORTABLE TONE DECODER-ENCODER SYSTEM
320,892 3,824,465 PORTABLE TONE DECODER-ENCODER SYSTEM
2,322,941 ADAPTIVE CANCELLATION OF FIXED INTERFERERS

Field of Use

The agreement relates to the digital, cellular, and wireless communications industry.

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee of Japan a non-exclusive, worldwide license under the Licensed Patents to make, have made, import, use, sell, lease and/or otherwise distribute Covered Subscriber Units and Covered Infrastructure Units.

License Property

Licensed Patents means every issued patent derived from a patent application which bears a first effective filing date on or before February 28, 2002 and owned at any time by ITC or its Affiliates or for which ITC has the right to grant the licenses conveyed hereunder, (including utility models but excluding design patents and design registrations) in any country of the world, which covers the manufacture, use, sale or lease of Subscriber Units and/or Infrastructure Equipment for use in TDMA based digital wireless telecommunications systems.

Covered Subscriber Units means Subscriber Units that are built to operate in accordance with one or more Covered Standards.

Covered Infrastructure Unit means Infrastructure Equipment that is designed to operate in accordance with a Covered Standard.

Cellular Unit means a Covered Subscriber Unit other than a PCS/PHS Unit or Wireless Local Loop Subscriber Unit.

TDMA' means time division multiple access.

Modem For RF Subscriber Telephone System – 4,644,561

Subscriber RF Telephone System For Providing Multiple Speech And/Or Data Signals Simultaneously Over Either A Single Or A Plurality of RF Channels – 4,675,863

Frequency Synthesizer For Broadcast Telephone System Having Multiple Assignable Frequency Channels – 4,785,260

Subscriber Unit For Wireless Digital Telephone System – 4,825,448
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Field of Use

This agreement is for the telecommunications industry.

License Grant

The Licensor and Japanese Licensee, the parties, have agreed upon a settlement of the dispute, wherein the settlement provides:(i) for certain amendments to the Prior Agreement, the principal amendment providing for certain payments to Licensor in lump sum amounts in exchange for a paid-up license for Covered Subscriber Units and Covered Infrastructure Equipment compliant with PHS and PDC Covered Standards, and (ii) for a new license agreement.

License Property

Licensor develops advanced wireless technologies and products that drive voice and data communications. The Company offers technology and product solutions for mainstream wireless applications that deliver cost and time-to-market advantages for its customers. Licensor has a strong portfolio of patented TOMA, OSM/GPRS and CDMA inventions, which it licenses worldwide.

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to the telecommunication equipment and services relating to wireless technologies.

License Grant

Licensor grants a personal, nontransferable, worldwide and nonexclusive license under Licensor’s Intellectual Property solely for Wireless Applications to make (and have made), import and use Subscriber Units, Sell Subscriber Units, but only to Unlicensed Customers (i.e., this provision does not grant Licensee a license or any rights to directly or indirectly sell Subscriber Units to Licensed Customers), and to make (and have made) Components (provided such Components have been designed exclusively by Licensee and which design is owned and used exclusively by Licensee) and import, use, sell, lease and otherwise dispose of such Components but only if such Components are included as part of and within complete Subscriber Units Sold by Licensee (or as replacement parts for such Subscriber Units previously sold by Licensee).

License Property

Licensor has developed certain proprietary Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology which may be useful in providing greater capacity and improved quality and reliability compared to other cellular telephone technologies, and Licensor manufactures and sells CDMA components and equipment.

CDMA Applications means all communication applications (regardless of the transmission medium) that operate using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology, whether or not based on IS-95, cdma2000 or W-CDMA, and irrespective of frequency band.

“IS-95 Related Systems” means I-95 and any single carrier system with a spreading bandwidth not greater than 1.25 MHz and based on or derived from IS-95.

“Licensed under one or more of the following Patents:
4,901,307

5,490,165

5,056,109

5,504,773

5,101,501

5,778,338

5,506,865

5,109,390

5,511,073

5,228,054

5,535,239

5,710,784

5,267,261

5,544,196

5,267,262

5,568,483

5,337,338

5,659,569

5,600,754

5,414,796

5,657,420

5,416,797”

Field of Use

This agreement is for the wireless telecommunications industry.

License Grant

Licensor grants a worldwide, personal, nontransferable and non-exclusive license, without the right to sublicense, to use Licensors Intellectual Property solely for Wireless Applications to make (and have made) and import, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of Licensed Products and to make (and have made) Components that have been designed exclusively by or for Licensee (which design is owned and used exclusively by Licensee) and import, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of such Components; provided, however, that such Components may only be used, sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by Licensee if they are included as part of and within complete Licensed Products Sold by Licensee (or as replacement parts for Licensed Products previously Sold by Licensee).

License Property

Licensor has developed certain proprietary Code Division Multiple Access technology that may be useful in providing greater capacity and improved quality and reliability compared to other Wireless telecommunications technologies.

The licensed products means only BSCs, BTSs, System Switches, Channel Units, and CDMA Enabling Infrastructure Equipment.   Examples of CDMA channels include, but are not limited to traffic, paging, sync, pilot and access channels.

“Licensed under one or more of the following Patents:
4,901,307

5,490,165

5,056,109

5,504,773

5,101,501

5,778,338

5,506,865

5,109,390

5,511,073

5,228,054

5,535,239

5,710,784

5,267,261

5,544,196

5,267,262

5,568,483

5,337,338

5,659,569

5,600,754

5,414,796

5,657,420

5,416,797”

Field of Use

This agreement is for the wireless telecommunications industry.

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee of Sweden and Licensees Affiliates a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, license under the Licensor Patents to use, lease, design, make, have made, import, sell, and otherwise transfer Covered Terminal Units, including the right to procure or produce components therefor, and, to practice a method or process involved in the manufacture thereof, and, to practice any method or process involved in the use thereof.

License Property

The patents relate to integrated baseband/RF wireless communications and devices.

Covered Terminal Units means Subscriber Units and End-User Devices designed to operate in accordance with one or more Covered Standards. Covered Terminal Units excludes Multi-Mode Products.

Field of Use

The field of use is digital cellular networks.

License Grant

A certain License Agreement for certain products sold integrating the XNN Technology into various products.

Field of Use

Licensee is in the business of designing, developing and manufacturing high power linear RF (radio frequency) amplifiers and specialized communications products targeting both the cellular and fixed wireless markets.

License Grant

Licensor grants to the Korean Licensee and its Subsidiaries, a worldwide, nontransferable, non-exclusive license, without the right to sublicense, under the Licensors Intellectual Property, to the extent the Licensors Intellectual Property is required for utilization of Channel Estimation Module or CEM technology in the Licensees Products, and Future Developed Intellectual Property rights to make, have made, import, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of, the Licensees Products.

License Property

The Prototype System means the prototype of a Licensees adaptive antenna array enhanced Code Division Multiple Access BTS which consists of a AAA RF front end and Licensors channel estimation function integrated into the Licensees modified base transceiver station system (BTS).

Licensor shall provide labor, facilities, materials, and services required to design, document, build, and deliver the components as specified herein for an Adaptive Antenna Array BTS system, including:
• RF Front End
• Channel Estimation Modules
• Beamformer Design Implementation
• Channel Estimation Software

Field of Use

The field of use is solely for mobile communications applications and to make, have made, import, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of Licensees Components.

The channel estimation function integrates into the Licensees modified base transceiver station system, and,  assist with the design incorporation of Beam forming capability into the Licensees Cell Site Modem ASIC.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to the Swedish Licensee, effective as of the Effective Date, a world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive royal-bearing license under Licensors Licensed Patents to make and Have Made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease or otherwise dispose of, and import Subscriber Units, designed by Licensee or its Affiliates and which design is owned by Licensee or its Affiliates, for CDMA Applications (the above licensed Subscriber Units are hereafter referred to as the 'Licensee Licensed Products') and the right to Have Made ASICs for incorporation into Licensee Licensed Products.  The license further includes (a) the right for the Licensee Licensed Products to be Multi-Mode (however, it is explicitly agreed and understood that no rights and licenses are granted for or may be extended under patents that apply only to the portion of a Multi-Mode product that implements an air interface other than CDMA or analog, e.g. no rights and licenses are granted for or may be extended under patents that apply to, inter alia, the GSM part of a GSM/CDMA Multi-Mode Subscriber Unit) and (b) to make and use solely by Licensee (but not to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of to third parties) instrumentalities for the development, manufacture, testing and repair of the Licensee Licensed Products.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, E is not granted a license under any of Licensors patents to sell any CDMA Modules or ASICs to any third party, directly or indirectly, for incorporation into a wireless telephone.

License Property

Licensors Licensed Patents means Licensors (and its Affiliates) Essential Patents and any non-Essential Patent selected by Licensee.

Licensors Essential Patents' means Essential Patents owned or sublicensable by Licensee (or by any of Licensees Affiliates), or by Licensor (or by any of Licensors Affiliates), respectively. If such Essential Patents are not owned by a Party or its Affiliates and are sublicensable by such Party or its Affiliates only with payment of additional royalty or consideration to a third party, or subject to obligations imposed as a condition of granting sublicenses, then such patents are included within the Patents being licensed hereunder only to the extent that the Party receiving such license agrees to pay any such additional royalty or consideration and agrees to be bound by such obligations in connection with such Partys use of such Patents.

CDMA Applications means all communications applications (regardless of the transmission medium) which operate using code division multiple access ('CDMA') technology, whether or not based on IS-95 Related Systems, cdma2000 or W-CDMA, and irrespective of frequency band.

Multi-Mode means Licensed Products having the capability to operate utilizing a CDMA air interface and an air interface in accordance with one or more non-CDMA standards.

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to communications applications (regardless of the transmission medium) which operate using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology, using modules, chip(s), chipsets (whether or not mounted on circuit cards) and circuit cards (for example, but not limited to, PCMCIA cards) that provide communication capabilities for use in user terminals (for example, PCs, vending machines and play stations).

License Grant

The Swedish Licensor hereby grants to Licensee, effective as of the Effective Date, a world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive royal-bearing license under Licensors Licensed Patents to make and Have Made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease or otherwise dispose of, and import Subscriber Units designed by Licensee or its Affiliates and which design is owned by Licensee or its Affiliates (the Licensee Licensed Products) for CDMA Applications. The license further include (a) the right for the Licensee Licensed Products to be Multi-Mode instrumentalities for the development, manufacture, testing and repair of the Licensee Licensed Products.

License Property

Licensors Licensed Patents means Licensors (and its Affiliates) Essential Patents, and any non-Essential Patent selected by Licensee. The term 'Licensors Licensed Patents' also includes the Patents In Suit.

Licensors Essential Patents means Essential Patents owned or sublicensable by Licensor (or by any of Licensors Affiliates). If such Essential Patents are not owned by a Party or its Affiliates and are sublicensable by such Party or its Affiliates only with payment of additional royalty or consideration to a third party, or subject to obligations imposed as a condition of granting sublicenses, then such patents are included within the Patents being licensed hereunder only to the extent that the Party receiving such license agrees to pay any such additional royalty or consideration and agrees to be bound by such obligations in connection with such Partys use of such Patents.

CDMA Applications means all communications applications (regardless of the transmission medium) which operate using code division multiple access ('CDMA') technology, whether or not based on IS-95 Related Systems, cdma2000 or W-CDMA, and irrespective of frequency band.

Multi-Mode means Licensed Products having the capability to operate utilizing a CDMA air interface and an air interface in accordance with one or more non-CDMA standards.

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to communications applications (regardless of the transmission medium) which operate using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology, using modules, chip(s), chipsets (whether or not mounted on circuit cards) and circuit cards (for example, but not limited to, PCMCIA cards) that provide communication capabilities for use in user terminals (for example, PCs, vending machines and play stations).

License Grant

The German Licensor grants to the Licensee of Puerto Rico and its Affiliates, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable without the right to sublicense worldwide license under the licensed patents, to make, have made, use, import, export, distribute, sell, offer for sale, develop and advertise licensed products. In addition, Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee Third Parties a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable without the right to sublicense worldwide license under the licensed patents, to make, have made, use, import, export, distribute, sell, offer for sale, develop and advertise licensed products only.

License Property

The US patents are for wireless building controls.

The License owned by Seller relates to patents of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, EPO, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.

Field of Use

The patented wireless building control systems and devices would be used in the construction industry for building management and protection.

License Grant

Included with the joint venture agreement is a Technical License.  The Japanese Licensor grants the Chinese Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable right and license to utilize Licensed Technology only for the purpose of development, manufacture and sale of the Products within the territory of Peoples Republic of China.

License Property

The product means Base Transceiver Station or BTS, designed and developed by or for Licensor, to be combined or integrated with radio network controller to be a part of infrastructure or mobile communications.

The Licensed Technology shall mean the following items:
( 1) Manufacturing engineering technology
(2) Technology enabling use of Base Transceiver Station or BTS including system integration
(3) Development for interface, mechanical design, etc.
(4) Testing, measuring technology
(5) Printed circuit board engineering
(6) Quality assurance technology
(7) Object code for core software and related documentation
(8) Repairing technology

Field of Use

This agreement is for the mobile telecommunications industry.

License Grant

Pursuant to this agreement, the parties desire to terminate the OEM Agreement and settle all matters related to the termination of the OEM Agreement and their business relationship to date.  The Cross-License Agreement is not affected by the terms of this Agreement.

Licensee shall waive its option to sub-license Licensor Patents under the Option Agreement.

Licensor shall waive the rights to any unpaid royalties.

License Property

The licensed property relates to Fixed Wireless Terminal Units, defined as cellular telephone transceivers that have a telephone jack that provides a loop-dial tip and ring interface to a standard landline telephone set.

Field of Use

This agreement is for the wireless, telephone communications industry.

License Grant

The Company hereby grants to Licensee a personal, nontransferable, nonassignable, non-sublicenseable, non-exclusive license for 'Licensed Products' are defined as two-way radio communications products, including both infrastructure components and subscriber units, that are compliant with the APCO Project 25 Standard.

License Property

'Licensed Products' further includes products that are also compatible with DES, DES-XL (including Proper Code Detection), and/or Motorola analog trunking, but are limited to implementation in an APCO 25 compliant digital subscriber radio, or a subscriber unit that has the capability to be APCO 25 compliant within 12 months of the date this Amendment is signed or within 12 months of the first shipment of a subscriber unit hereunder, whichever is later; Motorola’s DES-XL encryption and analog trunking capabilities.

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 Company entered into the Settlement Agreement and a Patent Cross License Agreement on sales of certain of the Company’s wireless LAN products.

License Property

The agreement addresses claims for alleged infringement of Symbol's US Patents 5,029,183 (the ''183 Patent'), 5,103,461 (the ''461 Patent'), 5,479,441 (the ''441 Patent') and 5,668,803 (the ''803 Patent').

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive License to Licensee under the Aironet Technology, including all intellectual property rights embodied therein.

License Property

Licensor is the owner of certain technology relating to wireless communications products.

'Access Point' shall mean a wireless network access point device that utilizes Aironet Technology.

'Aironet Products' shall mean all products, subassemblies, and services  that are now or hereafter become available for purchase from Licensor,  but shall exclude products or subassemblies that are custom made for  individual Licensor's customers.

'Aironet Technology' shall mean all Aironet patents, patent applications, trade secrets, know-how, software, firmware,  documentation, copyrights, and other proprietary rights existing prior  to and as of the date hereof (and as to patents, that may issue after  the date hereof based on patents existing or patent applications  initially filed as of the date hereof, including, but not limited to,  continuations, continuations in part, divisions, reissues, additions,  or extensions) and necessary to exercise rights granted under the  License.

'Bridge Products' shall mean Aironet's wireless point-to-point and  multipoint bridge products.

'Fully-Burdened Manufacturing Cost' shall mean all costs of  manufacturing a product, including labor, materials, and overhead, as  accounted for in the regular course of its business by the party  manufacturing that product, as timely adjusted for purchase price  variance.

'License' shall mean the licenses under the Aironet Technology (and all  intellectual property rights embodied therein) granted by Aironet to  Telxon in and under Aironet intellectual property  granted by Aironet to Telxon.

'Legacy Products' shall mean the products.

'Legacy Software' shall mean all current and prior source and object  code for the Legacy Products, including, but not limited to, the  software identified under 'Legacy Software.'

'MAC' shall mean a media access control unit that utilizes Aironet  Technology.

'New Software' shall mean the object code only of Aironet's (i)  revised, upgraded and otherwise modified versions of the Legacy  Software and of the 802.11 Supported Access Point Software which  incorporate significant enhancements or significant added functionality  to such software and which together with such software constitutes a  single package of new software, (ii) ports of the Legacy Software and  the 802.11 Supported Access Point Software to microprocessors not  currently supported, (iii) access point software (which, without  limitation, supports 802.11) developed on a commercially available real  time operating system and (iv) wholly new software.

'PC Card' shall mean a wireless transceiver in the pc card format that  includes both a Radio and a MAC.

'Radio' shall mean a wireless transceiver that does not include a MAC  and utilizes Aironet Technology.

'Telxon Derived Products' shall mean Telxon's improvements,  refinements, enhancements, modifications, adaptations, revisions, and  derivatives of Legacy Products, as a whole or any part.

'Telxon Derived Software' shall mean Telxon's improvements,  refinements, enhancements, modifications, adaptations, revisions, and  derivatives of Legacy Software and 802.11 Supported Access Point  Software.

'Universal Client' shall mean a stand-alone (external) client, suitable  for connection to a networked device, that utilizes Aironet Technology.

'802.11' shall mean the IEEE wireless LAN MAC/PHY specification as  ratified in July 1997.

'802.11 Supported Access Point Software' shall mean Aironet's current  Access Point software that supports 802.11 802.11 Supported Access point Software.

License Grant

The Company was granted a nonexclusive license for frame Relay Protocol based Multiplex Switching Scheme for satellites (United States Patent Number 5,434,850).

License Property

Product shall mean one or more chassis incorporating a frame relay protocol switch which, at the time sold by Licensee, includes one or more modulator cards and demodulator cards, and which is sold for incorporation in an earth station of a satellite based communications system (e.g., the Skyframe SF-800 and SF-400).

Field of Use

The Company has developed new and useful technology and devices for use in earth station as part of a satellite communications network.

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

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee the exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable License of all rights of any kind conferred by the Patents to communication technology in the Personal Emergency Response System.

License Property

Patent or Application No. Country Issue Date Title of Patent

6,044,257  United States  March 28, 2000   Panic Button Phone
6,636,732  United States  October 21,2003  Emergency Phone with Single Button Activation
6,226,510  United States  May 1, 2001      Emergency Phone for Automatically Summoning Multiple Emergency Response Services
7,092,695  United States  August 15, 2006  Emergency Phone with Alternate Number Calling Capability
7,251,471  United States  July 31, 2007    Emergency Phone with Single Button Activation

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to the communication industry.