CDMA2000: SISVEL Announces Development of Patent License and Issues Call for Essential Patents

CDMA2000: SISVEL Announces Development of Patent License and Issues Call for Essential Patents

November 07, 2007

    TURIN, Italy, Nov. 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- SISVEL
announced today that it is acting as the facilitator for
the creation of a joint CDMA2000 patent license and is
issuing a call for patents and other enforceable patent
rights that are essential to the CDMA2000 standard.

    SISVEL invites all parties that have a patent that they
consider to be essential to the CDMA2000 standard, and that
would like to join a patent portfolio license, to submit
its patent(s) for an evaluation of essentiality by
independent patent experts retained by SISVEL for possible
inclusion in the joint patent license. Interested parties
are invited to request information on the terms and
procedures for patent submissions by sending an email to
SISVEL at the following address: [e-mail].

    The company's Chief Executive Officer, Gianni Pancot,
stated: "SISVEL is proud to be the facilitator for the
creation of a joint CDMA2000 patent license." He added:
"We believe that with its 25 years of experience and a
worldwide presence with operations on three continents,
SISVEL is the ideal partner to make available to the market
licenses for patents essential to this technology.
Evaluation of the essentiality to the CDMA2000 standard of
patents submitted by various parties continues and we hope
that more parties will join in order to allow users of such
patents to capture as much essential intellectual property
as possible in a single license."

    SISVEL has discussed with parties holding essential
CDMA2000 patents to advance the process of structuring a
joint license to make essential CDMA2000 patents easily
accessible to all users on fair, reasonable, and 
non-discriminatory terms. Several meetings will be held in
the coming months to reach consensus on licensing terms
with the objective of reaching an agreement by the
beginning of 2008, and upon successful evaluation, all
parties holding essential patents will be invited to join
the process.

    About CDMA2000

    CDMA2000 represents a family of ITU-approved, IMT-2000
(3G) standards and includes CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
and UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) technologies. They deliver
increased network capacity to meet growing demand for
wireless services and high-speed data services. For more
information on CDMA2000 standards, please refer to
http://www.3gpp2.org/Public_html/specs/index.cfm. The
approved 3gpp2 output documents are converted into
standards by each of the Project's Organizational Partners
(such as TIA, ARIB, TTA etc).

    About SISVEL S.p.A.

    SISVEL is a patent management company that has become a
leader in promoting innovation and in licensing patents for
the past 25 years and is a recognized world leader in
increasing the value of patents. SISVEL enables users to
acquire patent rights necessary for a particular technology
standard from multiple patent holders in a single
transaction, providing one-stop technology platform patent
licenses. For more information, please refer to
http://www.sisvel.com.


     For more information, please contact:

     SISVEL
     Paolo D'Amato
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Media Relations contact
     Alberto Leproni 
     Tel:  [phone]