Royalty Report: Consumer Electronics, Security, Media & Entertainment – Collection: 27312

License Grant

The Company entered into a Digital Versatile Disc Player/Digital Video Cassette Recorder License Agreement for Anticopy Technology with Licensee, pursuant to which Licensee is authorized to include integrated circuits incorporating the Company’s copy protection technology in DVD players and digital VCRs that it manufactures.

License Grant

The Company grants to Licensee, and Licensee the following royalty-free, indivisible, non-exclusive and non-transferable rights to use the Technology to purchase the Device from Authorized Component Suppliers; incorporate in the Territory, or have incorporated in the Territory on a subcontract basis for the benefit of Licensee, the Device within one or more Products; and use, import, offer for sale, sell and distribute Products worldwide, for use in implementing the Process with program material which has been Copy Protected under agreement with Macrovision, directly or indirectly to consumers solely under Licensee's own brand names; provided that Licensee also has the worldwide right to physically dispose of defective Product after it has been destroyed.

License Property

The Company is the owner of all right, title and interest in and to certain anticopying technology which may be used to protect video material against unauthorized analog copying in connection with Digital Video Disc, Digital Video Cassette Recorder or DVD ROM program playback.

Field of Use

Licensee will incorporate the Technology in each DVD player, DVD recorder, DVD ROM drive and DVD-related card, circuit board or reference design which it produces or has produced for it. Nothing in this Agreement prohibits Licensee from also incorporating any other form of anticopy technology, whether existing now or in the future, into its Products, or from incorporating the Technology into DVD players, DVD recorders, DVD ROM drives and DVD-related cards or circuit boards which do not have the capability to decrypt digitally encrypted video discs.

License Grant

The Company has granted non-exclusive licenses under such patents for the design, manufacture, and sale of optical disc products such as compact discs, CD-ROM discs and video discs.

The Company has the right to grant licenses under certain DVA-owned United States patents relating to the design, manufacture, and sale of optical disc products such as compact discs, CD-ROM discs and video discs.

License Property

Information Storage Medium(s) shall mean any record carrier primarily designed to store and/or record any type of information.

Disc(s) shall mean any pre-recorded, non-recordable and non-erasable Information Storage Medium in the shape of a disc and having information recorded thereon on one or both sides thereof, which information is recoverable using optical detection means.

Digital Disc(s) shall mean a Disc having pre-recorded thereon digitally encoded information. Digital Discs shall include, but are not limited to, Discs commonly known as Compact Disc Digital Audio Discs or CD Digital Audio Discs, Compact Disc Single Discs or CD Single Discs, and Multi Media Discs.

Compact Disc Digital Audio Disc(s) or CD Digital Audio Disc(s) shall mean a Digital Disc having pre-recorded thereon audio entertainment information. A CD Digital Audio Disc is defined herein according to the definition in a specification entitled Compact Disc Digital Audio System Description published by N.V. Philips Consumer Electronics B.V. and Sony Corporation and commonly referred to as the Red Book. CD Digital Audio Discs shall include, but are not limited to, Digital Discs commonly known as compact discs (CD's) and pre recorded, non-recordable audio mini discs.

Compact Disc Single Disc(s) or CD Single Disc(s) shall mean a CD Digital Audio Disc, either three inches (3') or five inches (5') in diameter, having prerecorded thereon 20 minutes or less of audio entertainment information.

Multi Media Disc(s) shall mean any Digital Disc having recorded thereon computer, database, audio, video, text, graphics and/or player control information. Multi Media Discs shall include, but are not limited to, Digital Discs commonly known as CD-ROM Discs, CD-i Discs, CD-G Discs and CD Digital Video Discs.

Compact Disc Read Only Memory Disc(s) or CD-ROM Disc(s) shall mean a Digital Disc having pre-recorded thereon text files, data files, image files, computer program files, and the like, primarily intended for computer-related, database-related and/or multimedia-related usage. A CD-ROM Disc is defined herein according to the definition in a specification entitled 'Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) System Description published by N.V. Philips Consumer Electronics B.V. and Sony Corporation and commonly referred to as the Yellow Book. CD-ROM Discs include CD-ROM/XA discs and pre recorded data mini discs.

Compact Disc-Interactive Disc(s) or CD-1 Disc(s) shall mean a Digital Disc having pre-recorded thereon audio, video and program control data for interactive use with a human user by means of computer apparatus. A CD-1 Disc is defined herein according to the definition in a specification entitled Compact Disc Interactive Media Full Functional Specification published by N.V. Philips Consumer Electronics B.V. and Sony Corporation and commonly referred to as the Green Book.

Compact Disc-Graphics Disc(s) or CD-G Disc(s) shall mean a Digital Disc having pre-recorded thereon graphics information comprised of discrete still pictures or graphic images having no user perceivable motion.

Compact Disc Digital Video Disc(s) or CD Digital Video Disc(s) shall mean a Digital Disc having pre-recorded thereon information intended to produce visual images having user perceivable motion.

Video Disc(s) shall mean a Disc having pre-recorded thereon any information intended to produce visual images having user perceivable motion, which information is not digitally encoded. Video Discs shall include, but are not limited to, Discs commonly known as laser discs (LD's) and compact disc-video (CD-V) discs.

Manufacturing Apparatus shall mean apparatus for use in the fabrication of Discs, including apparatus used in performing quality assurance procedures and/or testing of Discs.

Manufacturing Processes) shall mean any method or process, including related apparatus, used in the fabrication of Discs, including process steps directed to quality assurance procedures and/or testing of Discs.

DVA Patent(s) shall mean all United States patents owned by DVA as of the effective date of this Agreement, including utility models and design patents, and any United States patents, including utility models and design patents, issuing from pending United States patent applications owned by DVA as of the effective date of this Agreement, directed to Discs and/or any Manufacturing Apparatus and/or any Manufacturing Process, under which patents and patent applications (as well as divisionals, continuations, continuation-in-part applications, reissues, reexaminations and extensions thereof) DVA has, as of the effective date of this Agreement, the right to grant licenses to Licensee of the scope granted herein, provided however that such grant, or the exercise of rights under such grant, will not result in the payment of royalties or other consideration by DVA to third parties (except for payments to Affiliates of DVA and payments to third parties for inventions made by said third parties while employed by DVA or any of its Affiliates). United States patents relating to Discs and/or their manufacture which have issued and are licensable by DVA are set forth in Agreement. DVA shall provide Licensee on at least an annual basis an updated version of Agreement which includes any new patent to be added to Agreement and which indicates the expiration of a previously listed patent by the addition of the letter E following the patent number.

Licensed Patent(s) shall mean those DVA-owned United States patents listed in Agreement of this Agreement, these being the DVA Patent(s) under which Licensee has agreed to take a license. Any DVA Patent(s) listed in Agreement may be added to Agreement and thereby becomes a Licensed Patent by written agreement of the parties.

Hydrodynamic bearing head providing constant spacing – A player for video disc includes a vacuum reading head to read recorded information from a thin, flexible video disc. A rotating turntable provides a fluid cushion bearing to support the disc and the vacuum associated with the transducing head assembly draws the disc toward the head and maintains an optimum head-to-disc spacing.

UNITED STATES    US 3,430,966E  —       TRANSPARENT RECORDING DISC
US 3,518,442E  —       VIDEO PLAYBACK ASSEMBLY WHEREIN THE RECORD DISC HAS OPTICAL

              RECORDING ON BOTH SIDES
US 3,658,954E  —       DUPLICATING PROCESS FOR VIDEO DISC RECORDS
US 3,687,664E  —       DUPLICATING PROCESS FOR VIDEO DISC RECORDS
US 3,794,410E  —       ARTICULATED MIRROR
US 3,829,622E  —       VIDEO DISC PLAYER WITH VARIABLY BIASED PNEUMATIC HEAD
2 US 3,894,180E  —       HEAD HEIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
US 3,908,076E  —       EXTENDED PLAY VIDEO DISC RECORDING SYSTEM
US 3,908,080E  —       METHOD OF MAKING AN EXTENDED PLAY VIDEO DISC RECORD
US 3,914,541E  —       VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 3,915,576E  —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CENTERING A CIRCULAR DISC
US 3,924,062E  —       DISC RECORD WITH SKIPPED STANDARD VIDEO INCREMENTS & CONTINUOUS AUDIO

              INCREMENTS & METHOD APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCTION
US 3,947,888E  —       HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING HEAD PROVIDING CONSTANT SPACING
US 3,954,469E  —       METHOD OF CREATING A REPLICATING MATRIX
US 3,997,715   —       FOCUSING SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 4,006,294E  —       TRANSDUCER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH FLUID BEARING AND HEAD HEIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
US 4,124,672   —       REPLICATION UTILIZING A CASTING PROCESS
US 4,130,620   —       METHOD FOR MAKING VIDEO DISCS AND VIDEO DISCS MOLDS
US 4,141,731   —       METHOD OF CREATING A REPLICATING MATRIX
US 4,152,586   —       OPTICAL TRANSDUCER AND FOCUSING SYSTEM
US 4,161,752   —       HIGH DENSITY VIDEO DISC HAVING TWO PIT DEPTHS
US 4,161,753   —       VIDEO RECORDING DISC WITH INTERLACING DATA FOR FRAMES ON THE SAME TRACK
US 4,185,955   —       APPARATUS FOR REPLACING CENTRALLY APERTURED VIDEO DISC RECORDS
US 4,190,860   —       DIGITAL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROTATING AN INFORMATION STORAGE DISC
US 4,204,199   —       METHOD AND MEANS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DIGITAL DATA
US 4,210,931   —       VIDEO PLAYER AND/OR RECORDER WITH HARDAMARD TRANSFORM
US 4,211,617   —       PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A STAMPER FOR VIDEO DISC PURPOSES
US 4,222,072   —       VIDEO PLAYER/RECORDER WITH NON-LINEAR MARK LENGTH MODULATION
US 4,225,873   —       RECORDING AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM
UNITED STATES    US 4,228,326   —       SYSTEM FOR RECORDING INFORMATION ON A ROTATING STORAGE DISC
(cont.)      IN SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM RECORDING DENSITY
US 4,232,388   —       METHOD AND MEANS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DIGITAL DATA
US 4,241,698   —       VACUUM EVAPORATING SYSTEM FOR THE DEPOSITION OF A THIN

              EVAPORATED LAYER HAVING A HIGH DEGREE OF UNIFORMITY
US 4,252,327   —       VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 4,256,374   —       WRITE AND READ OBJECTIVE LENS FOR HIGH DENSITY STORAGE
US 4,260,360   —       METHOD AND MEANS FOR REPLICATING CENTRALLY APERTURED VIDEO DISC RECORDS
US 4,264,911   —       OPTICAL RECORDING DISC AND RELATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
US 4,274,119   —       RECORDING DISC COVER AND PLAYER APPARATUS FOR REMOVING COVER
US 4,286,848   —       REPRODUCING OBJECTIVE LENS FOR VIDEO DISCS
US 4,307,381   —       METHOD AND MEANS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DIGITAL DATA
US 4,310,919   —       OPTICAL VIDEO DISC STRUCTURE
US 4,313,190   —       METHOD FOR MAKING A COMPOSITE VIDEO DISC
US 4,313,191   —       RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A PILOT SIGNAL WITH AN ALIGNED PHASE ANGLE IN ADJACENT TRACKS
US 4,337,538   —       DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR A VIDEO RECORDER-PLAYBACK MACHINE
US 4,339,814   —       SPINDLE ASSEMBLY FOR A VIDEO RECORDER-PLAYBACK MACHINE
US 4,340,353   —       HOT SPRUE VALUE ASSEMBLY FOR AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE
US 4,340,955   —       VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 4,341,469   —       LASER SHADOWGRAPH
US 4,345,261   —       DIELECTRIC RECORDING MEDIUM
US 4,347,599   —       SPINDLE CLAMP ASSEMBLY FOR A VIDEO RECORDER-PLAYER MACHINE
US 4,347,619   —       DIGITAL FORMATTING SYSTEM
US 4,353,767   —       METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL READING DISC
US 4,357,533   —       FOCUS DETECTOR FOR AN OPTICAL DISC PLAYBACK SYSTEM
US 4,358,774   —       APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FOCUS IN A RECORDING MEDIUM
US 4,358,802   —       FLUID CUSHION TURNTABLE FOR VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 4,367,545   —       VIDEO DISC PLAYER
US 4,368,957   —       WIDE APERTURE OBJECTIVE LENS
US 4,372,741   —       HOT SPRUE VALUE ASSEMBLY FOR AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE
US 4,504,939   —       STORAGE MEDIUM TRACK PITCH DETECTOR
US 4,510,536   —       SIGNAL CONDITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FM CODE SIGNAL
US 4,519,004   —       EXTENDED PLAY VIDEO DISC
US 4,524,444   —       ANALYZING THE SIGNAL TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF A SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT
US 4,535,548   —       METHOD AND MEANS FOR DRYING COATINGS ON HEAT SENSITIVE MATERIALS
US 4,566,090   —       STORAGE MEDIUM TRACK PITCH DETECTOR
US 4,583,210   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION
US 4,598,324   —       AUDIO EVALUATION UNDER CONTROL OF VIDEO PICTURE FRAME NUMBER
US 4,611,318   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE STORAGE OF INFORMATION ON A STORAGE MEDIUM
US 4,615,753   —       VIDEO RECORD DISC AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME
US 4,623,837   —       AUDIO/VIDEO QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM
US 4,648,084   —       STORAGE MEDIUM TRACK PITCH DETECTOR
US 4,706,133   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING INFORMATION FROM A VIDEO DISC
US 4,759,007   —       STORAGE MEDIUM TRACK PITCH DETECTOR
US 4,764,915   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING A MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL ON A RECORD MEDIUM
US 4,796,098   —       BANDED AND INTERLEAVED VIDEO DISC FORMAT
US 4,797,752   —       BANDED AND INTERLEAVED VIDEO DISC FORMAT
US 4,819,223   —       VIDEO RECORD DISC
US 4,893,297   —       VIDEO RECORD DISC AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME
US 4,980,878   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCANNING A RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DEFECTS
US 5,001,568   —       SIGNAL EVALUATION BY ACCUMULATION AT ONE RATE AND RELEASING AND TESTING AT A SLOWER RATE
US 5,003,526   —       SYSTEM FOR RECORDING DIGITAL INFORMATION IN A PULSE-LENGTH MODULATION FORMAT
US 5,018,020   —       RECORD DISC FOR STORING SEPARATE VIDEO AND AUDIO INFORMATION
US 5,084,852   —       SYSTEM FOR RECORDING DIGITAL INFORMATION IN A PULSE-LENGTH MODULATION FORMAT
US 5,126,990   —       A METHOD OF EVALUATING A STORAGE MEDIUM BY RECIRCULATING A TEST SAMPLE OF A SIGNAL
US 5,220,434   —       VIDEO RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STOP-MOTION PLAYBACK
US 5,253,244   —       SYSTEM FOR RECORDING DIGITAL INFORMATION IN A PULSE-LENGTH MODULATION FORMAT
US  RE32,431   —       METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING INFORMATION FROM A ROTATABLE STORAGE DISC

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to the compact discs industry.

License Grant

The Licensee entered into an Agreement with the Licensor, to represent the Licensee and to promote Versatile MultiLayer Disc – VMD Discs and Players to maximize sales and market presence in Dubai, U.A.E.  VMD technology increases the capacity of a conventional DVD by a factor of up to 5 allowing much greater storage for data and film content.

License Grant

The UK Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive non-assignable licence to use in the Field of Use, the Patents and Technology and the NXT Improvements, to manufacture and assemble the Licensed Products in the Production Territory and to distribute,  market, sell and use the Licensed Products in the Field of Use in the Sales Territory. Licensed products are flat panel loudspeakers.

License Property

The UK Licensor has developed  distributes mode acoustic technology enabling the manufacture of a lightweight panel loudspeaker which radiates sound efficiently and evenly  over a wide  frequency range and a wide  acoustic area.

Marks 'NXT' Electronic and electrical apparatus and instruments; loudspeakers; loudspeaker drive units; public address Class 9 systems; display panels for advertising, information and publicity purposes, with integrated or incorporated loudspeakers; display apparatus, having electrical or electronic components; sound reproduction apparatus; sound generation apparatus; acoustic apparatus for reproducing sound; loudspeakers integral to ceiling tiles; loudspeakers incorporated into ceiling tiles; sound reverberation units; noise cancellation apparatus; noise suppression apparatus; audio and video recording and reproducing equipment; amplifiers, tuners, turntables, compact disc players, cassette players, microphones, headphones; digital to analogue converters; magnetic and optical media for or bearing sound recordings; cables and connectors; televisions and video recorders; control units; computers; computer peripheral devices; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods.
Marks 'NXT' Electronic and electrical apparatus and instruments; loudspeakers; loudspeaker drive units; public address Class 9 systems; display panels for advertising, information and publicity purposes, with integrated or incorporated loudspeakers; display apparatus, having electrical or electronic components; sound reproduction apparatus; sound generation apparatus; acoustic apparatus for reproducing sound; loudspeakers integral to ceiling tiles; loudspeakers incorporated into ceiling tiles; sound reverberation units; noise cancellation apparatus; noise suppression apparatus; audio and video recording and reproducing equipment; amplifiers, tuners, turntables, compact disc players, cassette players, microphones, headphones; digital to analogue converters; magnetic and optical media for or bearing sound recordings; cables and connectors; televisions and video recorders; control units; computers; computer peripheral devices; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods.

Field of Use

The  Licensee believes  it can develop a substantial demand for Licensors distributed mode loudspeakers using Licensors patent rights, know-how and trade marks.

The rights granted to the Licensee in relation to the 'Field of Use' shall exclude any rights in relation to the following fields of use for flat panel transducer and audio speaker products which rights are governed by the New Cross License
(A) Aircraft including, but not limited to, all civil and military fixed and rotary wing aircraft of any nature and any other craft capable of sustained flight.
(B) Headsets, headphones, earplugs, earbuds, earmuffs, and all forms of 'on the ear' and 'in the ear' sound generating devices (for the avoidance of doubt, this field shall not include communications handsets such as telephones, cellular telephones, speaker telephones, telephone conferencing, two-way radios, mobile radios, ham radios, CB radios, public telephones, wireless telephones, SMR telephones, answering machines, pagers).
(C) Hearing aids, hearing assistance devices and other devices to assist impaired hearing.
(D) All devices and systems where the sole purpose is reducing, isolating, controlling or attenuating noise or vibration.

License Grant

Licensor grants to the China Licensee a permanent, irrevocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, worldwide, non-transferable license to design, develop, manufacture, have manufactured, make, have made, use, include in downstream products, sell or otherwise distribute products using Licensor DVD Technology, Licensor Servo Technology, and Licensor Navigation Technology.

Licensor grants a permanent, irrevocable, exclusive, non-sublicensable, worldwide, non-transferable license to design, develop, manufacture, have manufactured, make, have made, use, include in downstream products, sell or otherwise distribute products using Phoenix 2 Data Base and LMX 2 Data Base Phoenix 2 Products and LMX 2 Products shall only be sold for, distributed into, or used in Standard DVD Player applications.

Licensor grants a non.exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, and territory-limited distribution license to sell the Licensor Phoenix II integrated circuit to customers in Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) only for Standard DVD Player applications, and not for automotive DVD player applications.

Until Licensee obtains all necessary third-party licenses and begins production of Phoenix 2
Product, Licensor grants an exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable and worldwide distribution license to sell the Licensor Phoenix 2 Product integrated circuit to customers for Standard DVD Player applications.

License Property

Licensed Technology means Licensor DVD Technology, Licensor Servo Technology, Licensor DVD Navigation Technology, Phoenix 2 Data Base, and LMX 2 Data Base, collectively, as well as any confidential information provided to Licensee under the Agreement.

The Phoenix II processor is a single-chip DVD processor supporting DVD video, MPEG-4 ASP and DivX® Home Theater playback.

Phoenix LMX II is a single-chip DVD processor supporting DVD video, MPEG-4 ASP and DivX® Home Theater playback. Its advanced memory architecture supports video decoding with the built-in SDRAM.

Licensor DVD Technology means all hardware and software intellectual property in DVD products owned by Licensor. Hardware intellectual properties include Licensor design methodology, chip architecture, and functional blocks, including but not limited to Servo, Video encoder, MPEG1/2/4 decoder, USB, JPEG, CPU, DSP, PWM, Audio DAC, Video DAC, etc. Software intellectual properties include but are not limited to firmware in CPU and DSP, application software, GUI, OSD, etc.

Licensor Servo Technology means the Licensor servo processor owned by Licensor interfacing with laser optical pickup and disc/tracking motor drive(s) to provide data stream(s) to backend processing circuitry. It includes all related hardware and software intellectual properties and Licensor source code owned by Licensor and embedded in Phoenix 2 and LMX 2 database.

Licensor DVD Navigation Technology means Licensor navigation source code owned by Licensor and embedded in the Licensor reference DVD platform for Phoenix 2 and LMX 2.

Phoenix 2 Data Base means documentation, algorithms, source codes and files in RTL, simulation, layout, and test patterns, as well as a chip development environment (i.e. FPGA board, schematics and layout files) and chip validation environment (i.e. test and system level board schematics and layout files).

LMX 2 Data Base means documentation, algorithms, source codes and files in RTL, simulation, layout, and test patterns, as well as a chip development environment (i.e. FPGA board, schematics and layout files) and chip validation environment (i.e. test and system level board schematics and layout files).

Phoenix 2 Product means an integrated circuit that contains both Licensor Servo and Licensor MPEG circuitry from Phoenix 2 Data Base.

Field of Use

The field of use is integrated circuits and chip processors for the home theater industry.

License Grant

The Licensor granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive license under the Licensor Patent to make, have made, use, import, sell, and offer for sale in the United States all products made by or for, used, imported, sold, or offered for sale by Licensee that would infringe the Licensor Patent but for the License Agreement and certain components of the Licensed Products for the period beginning on  through the expiration of the Licensor Patent.

License Property

The Licensor is the owner of all rights, title and interest in U.S. Patent No. 4,974,088 entitled 'Remote Control Apparatus for a Rotating Television Camera Base' which involves a programmable camera base remote control technology that is extensively used in surveillance, video-conferencing and pan/tilt/zoom camera control systems.

Field of Use

Licensed Products means all products made by or for, used, imported, sold or offered for sale by Ultrak that would infringe the '088 Patent but for the License, including but not limited to Dome Products. Dome Products means the pan and tilt camera domes, which incorporate a memory.