Necessary IP Declarations – Quality of Service:3

Necessary IP Declarations – Quality of Service:3

Capitalized terms are defined in the UPnP Forum Membership Agreement.

Pursuant to the requirements of section 3.8(a) and 3.8(f) of the UPnP Forum Membership Agreement, the following Members have made the indicated declarations related to Necessary IP that is not the Member’s Member Input that is incorporated in the above named Standardized DCPs and their willingness to license such Necessary IP.

By providing this information, the UPnP Forum makes no representation regarding the accuracy or validity of this information nor its relevance to the UPnP Forum, DCPs, Proposed or Approved DCP Frameworks, test configuration files, Reference Implementations, Reference Implementation test logs, or to UPnP Compliant Devices. Consistent with Section 3.6(a)(D) of the UPnP Forum Membership Agreement, no Member, including Steering Committee representatives and working committee chairs, has undertaken on behalf of the UPnP Forum or its Members, any patent search with respect to the Proposed or Approved DCP Frameworks, Proposed DCPs, Standardized DCPs, Reference Implementations and associated test configuration files.

Members that now discover they have or acquire Necessary IP that is included in these Standardized DCPs have a disclosure obligation under Section 3.8(f) and must submit its Declaration through the forms linked below.

UPnP Patent Disclosure Guidelines

Disclosure Form B: UPnP Post-Comment and Disclosure Period Patent Declaration Form Amendment: Changing a RAND Declaration to a RAND-Z Declaration

Disclosure Form C: UPnP Post-Comment and Disclosure Period Patent Declaration Form for Later-Acquired and/or Later-Discovered Necessary IP

Questions or concerns regarding the disclosure processes and guidelines may be referred to the Legal Inquiry Taskforce using this online form.

Declarations

None.

Contributors

The UPnP Forum in no way guarantees the accuracy or completeness of this contributor list and in no way implies any rights for or support from those members listed. Members contributing to these DCP services, but not included in the list below should notify the Forum Administrator.

Broadcom Corporation
Cable Television Laboratories
Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2)
EchoStar Technologies LLC
Entropic Communications
Ghent University
Hewlett Packard
Intel Corporation
LG Electronics
Microsoft Corporation
Philips
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Texas Instruments