SHARP JOINS ONE-BLUE LICENSING PROGRAMME AS LICENSOR

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 (Bernama) -- One-Blue, an independent licensing

company

which handles a product’s licence for patents essential to Blu-ray Disc(TM)

products, today announced Sharp Corporation (Sharp) has joined the One-Blue

product licensing programme as a licensor.

Sharp joins current licensors -- Cyberlink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard,

Hitachi, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung,

Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha.

"We are pleased to announce Sharp has joined our licensing programme as a

licensor and is now making available their essential patents via the One-Blue

programme.

"Sharp has made major contributions to the development of the Blu-ray

Disc(TM) standard and becomes an important addition to our pool," said One-Blue

chief executive officer Roel Kramer in a statement.

One-Blue manages the licensing programme for patents essential to Blu-ray

Disc(TM) products and is the joint licensing agent for its licensors.

For hardware and software products, the product licence covers Blu-ray

Disc(TM), DVD and CD essential patents, while for disc products, the product

licence covers Blu-ray Disc(TM) essential patents.

Any holder of patents essential to optical formats used in Blu-ray Disc(TM)

products is invited to submit patents for evaluation and join the licensing

programme as a new licensor.

-- BERNAMA

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