Several Asian Firms Join One-Blue Licensing Program For Blu-Ray

One-Blue, LLC announced in January that Fujitsu Limited, Sharp Corp., Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd., Yamaha Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Pioneer Corp. has joined the One-Blue product licensing program as a licensor.

They join current licensors Cyberlink, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Philips and Sony.

One-Blue administers the licensing program for patents essential to Blu-ray Disc products and is the joint licensing agent of its licensors. For hardware and software products, the product license covers Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD essential patents; for disc products, the product license covers Blu-ray Disc essential patents. One-Blue is a patent pool that levels the playing field, reduces costs, and fosters use of the patent system in the entire optical disc sector.