BR Productions & Packaging Joined One-Blue Licensing Program

One-Blue, LLC announced that B.R. Productions & Packaging GmbH has joined the One-Blue product licensing program as a licensee.

It will now have access to patents essential to the Blu-ray Disc standard from licensors CyberLink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha.

"We are pleased to strengthen the One-Blue licensing program and announce that B.R. Productions & Packaging has joined as a licensee and is now able to utilize essential patents via our patent pool," said Roel Kramer, CEO of One-Blue. "As the one-stop shop for Blu-ray Disc product patents, One-Blue welcomes B.R. Productions & Packaging as an important addition to the program and in helping to maintain Blu-ray Disc product standards."

One-Blue said it 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.

B.R. Productions & Packaging has taken out a One-Blue license for BD ROM Discs.

It is an independent replication facility that manufactures, prints, and packs optical storage media such as CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc for businesses across Germany and most of Europe.