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Patent Policies for IPTV Revitalization. Focus on IPR. Submission Date: July 1, 2008. Highlight of Current Activities. Ongoing IPTV standardization by ITU No technical details for implementation in current texts developed by ITU-T’s IPTV FG
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Patent Policies for IPTV Revitalization Focus on IPR Submission Date:July 1, 2008
Highlight of Current Activities • Ongoing IPTV standardization by ITU • No technical details for implementation in current texts developed by ITU-T’s IPTV FG • De Facto standards containing technical details and patents • According to a survey in Korea -- • Patents on IPTV number more than 7,500. • Most of the patentees are major companies in the world. • Nobody knows who has the patents (some of the patents have yet to be declared). • Obstacle to launching IPTV
Strategic Direction for IPTV • Need for IPTV to be an information fountain for all peoples worldwide • Revitalizing IPTV as a matter of utmost importance • Low-cost deployment (CAPEX and OPEX) of IPTV as a possible key factor in providing it at a reasonable price • Patent fee (i.e., royalty) as one of the key factors for the low cost • Encouraging the development of patents for IPTV applications and contents • Patents to accelerate the development of specific applications and contents
Challenges • Difficulty in discussing patent fee • Too many patents (more than 7,500 patents) • Lots of windows to discuss • Analysis requiring many people and incurring massive expenses • SDO members to discuss the following: • How to facilitate patent discussions • How to ease the IPTV service provider’s royalty burdens • Maximizing the revenue of IPTV business • SDO members to do their best to revitalize IPTV service for user, provider, patentee
Next Steps/Actions • Need for agreement on commonly used patented services • The De Facto standards of leading vendors are very important in solving this problem. • Need for effort of all SDOs to help patentees declare patents • Launching IPTV should be easy. • Need for SDO’s cooperation for practical patent study • Minimize expenses related to establishing IPTV infrastructures (i.e., royalties). • Need for voluntary patent declaration by patentees for IPTV 5
3 win IPTV Service Provider User/IPTV Viewer Patentee Next Steps/Actions
Proposed Resolution [optional] • No need to change current Resolution in Res.GSC-12/05
Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU The total number of Patents : 7,536 WG1 : 1,598 WG2 : 604 [Source : IITA] 8
Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU WG3 : 1,431 WG4 : 373 [Source : IITA] 9
Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU WG5 : 1,684 WG6 : 1,846 [Source : IITA] 10