Today’s global economy demands a global wireless platform. Today’s mobile users are increasingly demanding the ability to communicate, conduct business, and stay connected as they move around the globe. Mobile users are also demanding “always available/always on” broadband speeds for business applications, streamed audio and video, video messaging, video telephony, mobile TV, location-based services, and gaming. 4G LTE is a next-generation wireless broadband technology designed to provide an enhanced user experience for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications. LTE technology provides increased wireless data transmission performance and greater mobility, and works across multiple fixed and mobile terminals including mobile phones, notebook PCs, media players, game consoles, cameras, and other 4G wireless-enabled devices. These LTE-based devices enable access to applications that include enhanced voice communications, messaging, interactive video and television, gaming, social media, and entertainment services. As the first all-Internet Protocol (IP) mobile network technology, LTE will enable the growing needs for persistent global access while delivering higher data throughput than current mobile technologies and also provide an advanced and extensible framework to deliver new and innovative mobile broadband services over time. The Essential Source for Essential Patents In today’s business climate wireless innovation is threatened by costly patent litigation and a lack of predictability surrounding the cost and availability of necessary IP. Working closely with the leading industry players, Via Licensing has developed a straightforward way to make LTE standard essential patents available in a fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory fashion. Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool is designed using best practices prescribed by global antitrust and competition authorities, helps patent owners fulfill their obligations to standards bodies, and supports a level playing field among innovators. Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool benefits industry and consumers: • An efficient licensing process with one standard agreement to review and execute – versus the alternative of multiple individual negotiations and transactions • Economies of scale in obtaining rights to the essential patents from multiple parties in a single transaction • LTE patent license includes all of the essential patents of every pool licensor providing assurance of complete coverage of required IP • Assurance of market appropriate royalties and a level playing field for competition due to the availability of standard terms offered on a non-discriminatory basis • Streamlined reporting using a secure, always available, online reporting website versus multiple reports and payments to individual licensors through multiple reporting mechanisms, often including non-automated methods • Added value for your products and your company through the acquisition of independently evaluated essential IP Bridging Innovation and Commerce ® Standards-Essential Patent Licensing Long Term Evolution Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool brings together the essential LTE patents of multiple innovators into a single license offering that simplifies the licensing process, promotes transparent pricing, and creates a level playing field for all LTE licensees.
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Today’s global economy demands a global wireless platform. Today’s mobile users are increasingly demanding the ability to communicate, conduct business, and stay connected as they move around the globe. Mobile users are also demanding “always available/always on” broadband speeds for business applications, streamed audio and video, video messaging, video telephony, mobile TV, location-based services, and gaming.
4G LTE is a next-generation wireless broadband technology designed to provide an enhanced user experience for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications. LTE technology provides increased wireless data transmission performance and greater mobility, and works across multiple �xed and mobile terminals including mobile phones, notebook PCs, media players, game consoles, cameras, and other 4G wireless-enabled devices. These LTE-based devices enable access to applications that include enhanced voice communications, messaging, interactive video and television, gaming, social media, and entertainment services.
As the �rst all-Internet Protocol (IP) mobile network technology, LTE will enable the growing needs for persistent global access while delivering higher data throughput than current mobile technologies and also provide an advanced and extensible framework to deliver new and innovative mobile broadband services over time.
The Essential Source for Essential Patents
In today’s business climate wireless innovation is threatened by costly patent litigation and a lack of predictability surrounding the cost and availability of necessary IP. Working closely with the leading industry players, Via Licensing has developed a straightforward way to make LTE standard essential patents available in a fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory fashion. Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool is designed using best practices prescribed by global antitrust and competition authorities, helps patent owners ful�ll their obligations to standards bodies, and supports a level playing �eld among innovators.
Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool bene�ts industry and consumers:
• An efficient licensing process with one standard agreement to review and execute – versus the alternative of multiple individual negotiations and transactions
• Economies of scale in obtaining rights to the essential patents from multiple parties in a single transaction
• LTE patent license includes all of the essential patents of every pool licensor providing assurance of complete coverage of required IP
• Assurance of market appropriate royalties and a level playing �eld for competition due to the availability of standard terms offered on a non-discriminatory basis
• Streamlined reporting using a secure, always available, online reporting website versus multiple reports and payments to individual licensors through multiple reporting mechanisms, often including non-automated methods
• Added value for your products and your company through the acquisition of independently evaluated essential IP
Bridging Innovation and Commerce
®
Standards-Essential Patent Licensing
Long Term Evolution
Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool brings together the essential LTE patents of multiple innovators into a single license offering that simpli�es the licensing process, promotes transparent pricing, and creates a level playing �eld for all LTE licensees.
Unprecedented Access to LTE Essential IP
Highly advanced standards-based technologies, such as LTE, require signi�cant levels of investment coupled with considerable research and development. The results of these efforts are often protected by patents that may be held by one or more of the technology’s creators. To help enable broad-based adoption, most standards organizations have patent policies that require companies contributing to the standard-setting process to identify their patents that are likely to be essential to the standard. Those policies also typically require the contributors to grant licenses to these patents on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool brings together the essential LTE patents of multiple innovators into a single offering. The LTE Patent License Agreement provides access to all of the patents from the participating licensors which are essential to the implementation of the 3GPP LTE standard. This allows companies that manufacture or sell products implementing the LTE standard to gain access to this portfolio of essential LTE patents in a single, cost-effective transaction.
Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool provides transparent and nondiscrimi-natory access to LTE essential patents in a fair and cost-effective license that is designed to encourage growth and development of this important technology and related wireless markets. It is provided within an open licensing framework offering licensees a well-proven method of obtaining essential patent rights coupled with the assurance of a level playing �eld. As an independent administrator, Via Licensing is committed to meeting the needs of both patent owners and compa-nies deploying LTE products and services.
LTE Licensing Program Essentials
Parties manufacturing or selling LTE devices or components and other implementers of the LTE standard should contact Via Licensing to obtain more information about the LTE patent pool and to request an LTE Patent License Agreement.
Participation as a licensor in the LTE licensing program is open to all owners of LTE essential patents. Any party that believes they hold a patent essential to the LTE standard is encouraged to submit the patent for evaluation and, once quali�ed, to offer their essential patents through the LTE patent pool.
About Via Licensing
Via Licensing is dedicated to the development and administration of licensing programs for mandated, de facto, and emerging standards on behalf of innovative technology companies in the audio, broadcast, wireless, and automotive markets. By developing patent pools for standardized technology, Via Licensing aids in the broad proliferation of standardized technologies and the creation of a healthy and competi-tive commercial environment.
