Curtis International enters into MPEG LA's MPEG-2 and ATSC licences

Business Wire via ITWeb,

Denver, 28 Jan 2014

MPEG LA announced today that Curtis International (Curtis) has become a licensee to MPEG LA's MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License and ATSC Patent Portfolio License.

As a result of these agreements, companies that license their essential MPEG-2 and ATSC patents through MPEG LA have agreed to dismiss their patent infringement actions against Curtis before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. See http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20Legal%20Action%20List/Attachments/51/n-13-08-01.pdf; and http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20Legal%20Action%20List/Attachments/50/n-13-06-05.pdf.

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MPEG LA is the world leader in alternative technology licences. By assisting users with convenient access to patent rights for their technology choices, MPEG LA offers licensing solutions that create opportunities for wide adoption and fuel innovation. MPEG LA's pioneering MPEG-2 licensing programme helped produce the most widely employed standard in consumer electronics history and has become the template for addressing numerous other technologies. Today, MPEG LA manages licensing programmes consisting of 8 500 patents in 74 countries with 162 licensors and some 5 800 licensees. For more information, please refer to http://www.mpegla.com.

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