TV-Anytime Specification
Submitting a Patent: TV-Anytime Specification

The TV-Anytime Specification addresses the means by which consumers will be presented with broadcast and online content in a world of set-top boxes with mass storage capabilities. By specifying standardized means to identify, locate, navigate, filter, and use the vast array of content that will be presented to consumers, the TV-Anytime Specification will foster valuable interoperability and production efficiencies for device manufacturers, software developers, service and network operators, and content owners and producers.

The TV-Anytime Phase 1 (TVA-1) Specification has been published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and is available from the ETSI website at www.etsi.org (search for "TS 102 822"). Patent holders should also review amendments to the standard awaiting submission to ETSI. These amendments are located at the TV-Anytime Forum website at www.tv-anytime.org.

The goal of this call for patents is to identify the owners of patents essential to the practice of the TVA-1 Specification. Patents and patent applications are considered essential when they are determined to have at least one independent claim that would necessarily be infringed (in the absence of a license) by the implementation or use of the specification.

Any entity that believes it has patents or pending patent applications essential to the normative portions of TVA-1 as specified in ETSI TS 102 822 v1.1.1 (2003-10) or pending amendments at the TV-Anytime Forum website is invited to contact Via Licensing Corporation to receive information about submitting patents for an essentiality determination. Submitters of patents determined to be essential to the practice of the TVA-1 Specification are expected to participate in a group of essential patent holders that will convene to discuss the commercialization terms for TVA-1 patents under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms.

For submission information, please send an email message to submissions@vialicensing.com, specifying your interest in submitting a patent or patent application for consideration of essentiality to the TVA-1 Specification.