Call for 3G Long Term Evolution Patents
Call for 3G Long Term Evolution Patents
11th May , 2009
US : Via Licensing Corporation 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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.