BD4C Licensing Group - Media-tech association · BD-RE Disc US$0.09 per disc 5. BD/DVD Hybrid Disc ... Zhong Shan City Li Tai ... Administration of the DVD6C patent licensing program

Copyright Toshiba 2011 1

BD4C Licensing Group(Update / One (1) year after Launch)

Presented to MEDIA-TECH Conference

in Macau, PRC on March 15, 2011


- Agenda -

BD4C Licensing Group & Members

BD4C Licensing Program :

- Licensing Scheme

- Licensing Terms

Licensee List as of March 15, 2011

Administration of Licensing Program :

- Independence & Neutrality -

Contact Information/Web Information


- BD4C Licensing Group & Members-

Starting Date of BD4C Licensing Program :

March 1, 2010

Members :

Disney Enterprises, Inc. (USA)

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan)

Thomson Licensing (S.A.S) (France)

Toshiba Corporation (Japan)

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (USA)

Authorized Licensor :

Toshiba Corporation (Japan)


- BD4C Licensing Program (License Scheme) -

DVD BD

Licensees

BD Portions

/ BD Patents

DVD Portions

/ DVD Patents

BD4C License covers BD Products as well as the DVD portion in BD Products

such as Players, Drives and Recorders which have DVD function as backward

compatibility under the single form agreement.

BD Portions

/ BD Patents

DVD Portions

/ DVD Patents

(BD Products / Licensed Products )

– defined in BD Patent License

Agreement (Single Form Agr.)

(BD Products) (BD4C Licensing Group)

Authorized Licensor : Toshiba Corporation

CONFIDENTIAL


- BD4C Licensing Program (Licensing Terms(1)) -

（１） Licensed Products :

BD Products conforming to BD Standard Specifications and, as applicable, DVD Standard Specifications

（２） Licensed Patents :

Essential BD Patents and, as applicable, Essential DVD Patents.“Essential” means necessarily infringed when implementing the BD Standard Specifications or, as applicable, the DVD Standard Specifications or claiming technologies for which there is no realistic alternative in implementing those Standard Specifications.

（３） Grant of License :

A non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license (w/o any sublicense right) to make, have made, use, import, offer for sale, sell and otherwise dispose of BD Products to be granted


- BD4C Licensing Program (Licensing Terms(2)) -

（４） Royalty Rates :

Pls. see the pages 7-8 hereof

（５） Report & Payment :

- Report :

Within 45 days after each semi-annual period ending Jun. 30 and Dec. 31

- Payment :

Within 90 days after each semi-annual period ending Jun.30 and Dec. 31

- Back royalty :

It shall be calculated by applying the royalty rates of the pages 7-8 hereof to the number of BD Products sold by Licensee prior to the effective date.

（６） Term :

The Term of the license shall continue through December 31, 2017, with five-year automatic extensions thereafter subject to Licensees’ right to terminate at the time of each extension.

（Note） Interested parties are also free to negotiate separate license agreements, rather than taking a single portfolio license agreement, with each of the member companies.


- Licensing Terms (Royalty Rates (1)) -

Category Royalty

1. BD-Video Disc US$0.04 per disc

2. BD-ROM Disc US$0.04 per disc

3. BD-R Disc US$0.065 per disc

4. BD-RE Disc US$0.09 per disc

5. BD/DVD Hybrid Disc

(including BD/DVD Hybrid

ROM Discs and BD/DVD

Hybrid Video Discs)

US$0.08 per disc

6. BD DecoderUS$1.00 per decoder, with an annual

cap of US$10,000,000

7. BD EncoderUS$1.50 per encoder, with an annual

cap of US$15,000,000


- Licensing Terms (Royalty Rates (2)) -

Category Royalty

8. BD-Video Player US$4.50 per player

9. BD-Video Combo Player US$6.00 per player

10. BD Video Recorder US$7.00 per recorder

11. BD-Video Combo Recorder US$6.00 per recorder

12. BD-ROM Drive US$4.00 per drive

13. BD Recordable Disc Drive US$6.00 per drive

14. BD-ROM Combo Drive US$5.00 per drive

15. BD Combo Recordable Disc

DriveUS$5.00 per drive

Please note that the BD4C Licensing Group reserves the right to adjust the rates as necessary to

encourage the broad participation in the program by interested companies with essential patents.


- Licensee List as of March 15, 2011 -

1. BlueStar (USA)

2. D&M Holding (DENON) (Japan）

3. Dongguan Contel Electronics（China）

4. Forworld Electronic (Taiwan）

5. Funai Electric (Japan）

6. Harman International （USA）

7. Horon (Japan)

8. Memory-Tech (Japan）

9. Mitsubishi Electric (Japan)

10. Shenzhen MTC Multimedia（China）

11. TEAC（Japan）

12. Technicolor (France)

13. Toshiba (Japan)

14. Toyo Recording (Japan）

15. Warner (USA)

16. Zhong Shan City Li Tai（China）


Administration of Licensing Program (1) - Independence & Neutrality -

（１） Company Name & Address :

1. Company Name :

Toshiba DVD License Services, Inc. (“TDLS”)

2. Address :

5th Floor, Sumitomo-Hamamatsucho Bldg., 18-16, Hamamatsucho 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0013, Japan

（２） Establishment Date & Purpose :

1. Establishment Date : October 1, 2002

2. Purpose :

Administration of the DVD6C patent licensing program for patents essential to DVD Standard Specifications. For almost 10 years, TDLS has played such administrative role and has a good record in this respect. From March 1, 2010, TDLS has started administration of the BD4C patent licensing program for patents essential to BD Standard Specifications.

（３） Organization :

President : Fusao Kaneda

Employee: 17 persons

To secure independence of Licensors and for avoidance of Licensors’ access to the

sensitive business information contained in the royalty reports under the Patent License

Agreement, through the use of TDLS, BD4C Licensing Group has already set up a firewall

from its initial period.


Licensee

［Authorized

Licensor］

Sublicense

Disney, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Technicolor,

Warner

Administration of Licensing Program (2)

- Independence & Neutrality -

Toshiba

TDLS

Royalty

Report

Firewall［BD4C

Licensors］

×Access

limitation

×Invoice Patent License

Agreement

To secure independence of Licensors and for avoidance of Licensors’ access to the

sensitive business information contained in the royalty reports under the Patent License

Agreement, through the use of TDLS, BD4C Licensing Group has already set up a firewall

from its initial period.


- Contact Information -

Masayuki Miyanaga

Vice President, General Manager

Licensing

Toshiba DVD License Services, Inc.

5th Floor, Sumitomo-Hamamatsucho Bldg.,

18-16, Hamamatsucho 1-chome, Minato-ku,

Tokyo 105-0013, Japan

Phone: +81-3-5777-3286

Fax: +81-3-5401-2503

E-mail: [email protected]

Alfred Chaouat

Senior Vice President, Licensing

Technicolor (Thomson Licensing)

1, rue Jeanne d'Arc

92443 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex,

France

Phone: +33-1-4186-5284

Fax: +33-1-4186-5637

Email : [email protected]

For further information, please contact one of the following regional licensing

representatives:

North and South America, Asia (including

Japan), Oceania and the Middle East :Europe and Africa :

mailto:[email protected]







- Web Information (http://www.bd4c.com) -

BD4C website was opened as of May 20, 2010. Several related information as

below is available in the website.

http://www.bd4c.com/news.html

http://www.bd4c.com/offer.html

http://www.bd4c.com/agreement.html

http://www.bd4c.com/faq.html

http://www.bd4c.com/list.html

http://www.bd4c.com/licensee.html

http://www.bd4c.com/contact.html

http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/

http://www.technicolor.com/

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/

http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/home.html

http://www.warnerbros.com/

http://www.bd4c.com/offer.html

http://www.bd4c.com/about.html

http://www.bd4c.com/agreement.html

http://www.bd4c.com/faq.html

http://www.bd4c.com/list.html

http://www.bd4c.com/licensee.html

http://www.bd4c.com/contact.html


Thank you for your attention.

謝謝你的收听

BD4C Licensing Group - Media-tech association · BD-RE Disc US$0.09 per disc 5. BD/DVD Hybrid Disc ... Zhong Shan City Li Tai ... Administration of the DVD6C patent licensing program

Documents