MPEG LA announced that DVD replicators ODS Optical Disc Service, Dassow, Germany, as well as the ODS Business Services Group companies – ODS Optical Disc Replication GmbH, Germany, ODS Business Service Srl (just renamed to ODS Optical Disc Service Srl), Milano, Italy, ODS Optical Disc Service SAS, Quincy, France and the new affiliate ODS Optical Disc Replication Limited, Swindon, UK, have entered into the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License offered by MPEG LA. This also concludes actions in courts in the Federal Republic of Germany and elsewhere.
“MPEG LA looks forward to a cooperative relationship with ODS and ODS Business Services, in which they join over 1,200 licensees including the world’s leading DVD video disc replicators, as licensees to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License, which has helped enable the most widely employed standard in consumer electronics history,” said MPEG LA CEO Larry Horn.
Story filed 06.03.07