Which companies are behind One-Blue? Can all essential patent holders join the One-Blue licensing program as licensor?
Licensors
After the call for patents first made by One-Blue in October 2009, 19 essential patent holders have been participating in the licensing program.
The current licensors are:
- Columbia Technology Ventures
- Cyberlink Corporation
- Dell Global B.V.
- Fujitsu Limited
- Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
- HP Inc.
- Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
- JVCKENWOOD Corporation
- Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- LG Electronics Inc.
- Memory-Tech Holdings Inc.
- Panasonic Corporation
- Pioneer Corporation
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Sharp Corporation
- Sony Corporation
- Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
- Yamaha Corporation
Any holder of patents essential to optical formats used in Blu-ray Disc™ and Ultra HD Blu-ray™ products is invited to join the program as a licensor. Entities who believe they have patents that are essential to the implementation of the Ultra HD Blu-ray™ Standard, Blu-ray Disc™ Standard, DVD Standards and/or CD Standards can submit these to selected patent evaluation law firms.
Interested Licensors should contact One-Blue for detailed documentation regarding the programs.
