Via Licensing Issues Call for Long Term Evolution Patents

Via Licensing Corporation today announced a call for patents that are essential to the practice of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) platform, which is based on the E-UTRA (3GPP Series 36, release 8) specifications.

“Several of the world’s leading mobile carriers, handset makers, and equipment makers have identified LTE as a strategic priority,” said Jean-Michel Bourdon, President, Via Licensing. “Via Licensing is committed to working with the industry to create a joint licensing program that balances the needs of licensors and licensees and enables the industry to more effectively develop and deliver products and services based on LTE.”

LTE is a next-generation wireless broadband technology designed to provide an enhanced user experience and simplified technology for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications. Potential LTE applications include enhanced voice communications, messaging, interactive video and television, gaming, social media, and entertainment services. LTE technology will work across multiple fixed and mobile terminals including future mobile phones, notebook PCs, media players, game players, cameras, camcorders, and other portable devices.

Additional information about LTE is available from the 3rd Generation Partnership Program Project (3GPP) at www.3gpp.org/lte. Copies of the specifications related to LTE (3GPP Series 36, release 8) can be obtained from the 3GPP at www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36-series.htm.

Via Licensing is issuing this patent call for the purpose of identifying the owners of patents that are determined to be essential to the practice of the LTE platform and related specifications. A patent is essential if it contains at least one independent claim that is necessarily infringed by the practice of the standard.

Any entity with a patent or patent application that is found to be essential by an independent patent evaluator is invited to join a group of essential patent holders that plan to convene to discuss the commercial terms of a joint patent license to be offered under reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.

Any entity that believes it has patents or pending patent applications that are essential to the normative portions of the related 3GPP Series 36, release 8 specification (see the following Schedule of Included LTE Specifications table) is invited to contact Via Licensing to receive information about how to submit patents for essentiality review.

Via Licensing invites parties interested in discussing the opportunity to participate in an LTE patent licensing program to contact the company at lte@vialicensing.com.

For complete submission information, interested parties should email submissions@vialicensing.com, specifying an interest in submitting a patent or patent application for consideration of essentiality to the LTE Platform Joint Patent Licensing Program.

Schedule of Included LTE Specifications

Ref No. Description
1. TS 36.302 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Services provided by the physical layer
2. TS 36.423 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); X2 Application Protocol (X2AP)
3. TS 36.413

Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); S1 Application Protocol (S1AP)

4. TS 36.401 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Architecture description
5. TS 36.331 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification
6. TS 36.323 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification
7. TS 36.322 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification
8. TS 36.321 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification
9. TS 36.314 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Layer 2—measurements
10. TS 36.304 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) procedures in idle mode
11. TS 36.300 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2
12. TS 36.214 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer—measurements
13. TS 36.213 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures
14. TS 36.212 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and channel coding
15. TS 36.211 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation
16. TS 36.133 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for support of radio resource management
17. TS 36.104 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception
18. TS 36.101 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception

About Via Licensing Corporation

Via Licensing Corporation develops and administers patent licensing programs on behalf of innovative technology companies and for the convenience of licensees. Via Licensing Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) and benefits from the expertise, infrastructure, and strategic business relationships that Dolby has developed in more than 35 years of licensing into the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Via Licensing is involved in the development and operation of licensing programs for both mandated and de facto or emerging specifications. For more information about Via Licensing Corporation, please visit www.vialicensing.com.

Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the capabilities and adoption of LTE, the eventual availability and expected timing of a joint patent license for technologies essential to the LTE platform, and the ability of a joint licensing program to enable more effective development and delivery of products and services based on LTE, are "forward-looking statements" that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and, as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. The following important factors, without limitation, could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: risks associated with licensing technologies through joint licensing programs; risks associated with licensing industry-standard technologies; risks associated with developing proprietary technology in markets in which “open standards” are adopted; market acceptance of LTE capable devices; rapid changes in wireless transmission technologies; risks associated with the development of markets for LTE–capable products; and other risks detailed in Dolby Laboratories, Inc.’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including the risks identified under the section captioned "Risk Factors" in its most recent Periodic Report on Form 10-Q or 10-K. Dolby disclaims any obligation to update information contained in these forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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Contacts:

Via Licensing
Sean Durkin, 415-645-5176
sean.d@vialicensing.com

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