Patent Policies for IPTV Revitalization

Focus on IPR

DOCUMENT #: GSC13-PLEN-21

FOR: Presentation

SOURCE: TTA

AGENDA ITEM: Plenary; 6.6; IPTV

CONTACT: kangsch@kcc.go.kr

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

• 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

Strategic Direction for IPTV

• 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

Challenges

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

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IPTV Service Provider

Patentee

User/IPTV Viewer

Next Steps/Actions

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Proposed Resolution [optional]

• No need to change current Resolution in Res.GSC-12/05

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Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU

• The total number of Patents : 7,536

WG1 : 1,598

WG2 : 604

[Source : IITA]

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Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU

WG4 : 373

WG3 : 1,431

[Source : IITA]

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Patents status of FG IPTV in ITU

WG6 : 1,846

WG5 : 1,684

[Source : IITA]