One-Blue Expanded Licensing Program for Ultra HD Blu-ray

One-Blue, LLC expanded its Blu-ray Disc (BD) products licensing program by launching its Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD) products licensing program, with effect July 1, 2017.

The company offers UHD product producers the opportunity to license its Licensors’ patents deemed essential to the Ultra HD Blu-ray standards, as issued by the Blu-ray Disc Association.

“One-Blue continues to deploy and leverage industry best practices to ensure equitable terms, fair pricing and the consistent protection of patents for all participants – licensors and licensees for its product licensing programs” stated Roel Kramer, CEO, One-Blue.

UHD product agreements:
Prospective UHD product licensees can now review and download all seven UHD product agreements and royalty rate information by linking to the licence programs.

• UHD player and/or combination UHD player/recorder

• UHD player transportation vehicle

• UHD playback drive and/or combination UHD playback/BD recorder drive

• PC with pre-installed UHD software

• Aftermarket drive and bundled UHD software

• UHD software

• UHD ROM movie disc and/or data disc

Early signing incentive
The company is also announcing an early signing incentive for those UHD producers who execute UHD product license agreements on or before September 30, 2017. In accordance with the incentive, UHD products shipped during the period April 1, 2017 to June 30, 2017 will be charged the royalty rate for the comparable BD product.

For shipments on and after July 1, 2017, the royalty rates for UHD products will apply.

UHD producers who execute UHD agreements after September 30, 2017 will not be eligible for the incentive, and will be charged the UHD product royalty rates for all UHD products shipped at any time.

UHD royalty rates

Prior call for UHD patents
The firm previously announced that those having essential UHD product patents and wished to participate in the company’s programs as a Licensor, can submit such patents for evaluation of essentiality to the firm’s selected patent evaluation law firms. Any party that believes it has a patent which is essential to the Ultra HD Blu-ray Standards, Blu-ray Disc Standards, DVD Standards or CD Standards presently included in the company’s Blu-ray Disc products license programs and would like to participate in these programs as a Licensor, may submit its patent for an evaluation of essentiality by the company’s selected patent evaluation law firms.

One-Blue is the one-stop shop for patents essential to the Ultra HD Blu-ray and the Blu-ray Disc standards from licensors including ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Columbia Technology Ventures, CyberLink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co. Ltd., HP Inc., JVCKENWOOD, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha.

These seventeen Licensors have made available more than ten thousand issued Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc product patents worldwide to implement the Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and CD standards.

The firm offers licenses for these patents for various Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc products including players, recorders, playback drives, recorder drives, software, PCs, pre-recorded discs, and recordable discs.