LTE (3GPP Series 36, release 8)
Submitting a Patent: LTE (3GPP Series 36, release 8)

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 at 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 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 would 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 by the independent patent evaluator.

Parties interested in discussing the opportunity to participate in an LTE patent licensing program can contact Via 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 implementation of the LTE Platform.

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