VidaBox Dives into One-Blue Patent Pool

One-Blue, LLC announced that VidaBox LLC has signed on to its Blu-ray Disc (BD) patent licensing program.

For more information visit: www.one-blue.com


Unedited press release follows:

VidaBox LLC Joins the One-Blue Licensing Program for Blu-ray Disc™

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2013 — One-Blue, LLC, today announced that VidaBox LLC of Garden City Park, New York has joined the One-Blue Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) product licensing program as a licensee. VidaBox signed the License Agreement for BD-PC that grants the company access to important patents essential to the Blu-ray Disc™ standard from leading licensors.

“VidaBox is an important addition to the One-Blue licensing program,” said William J. Lenihan, Director of IP Licensing of One-Blue. “The market for Blu-ray enabled home media / entertainment servers is expanding and One-Blue can provide the necessary Blu-ray specific product licenses to those manufacturers looking to address this segment.”

One-Blue administers the licensing program for patents essential to Blu-ray Disc™ products and is the joint licensing agent of its licensors. For hardware and software products, the product license covers Blu-ray Disc™, DVD and CD essential patents; for disc products, the product license covers Blu-ray Disc™ essential patents.

Any company interested in obtaining licenses for one or more Blu-ray Disc™ products under the One-Blue product licensing program, or for more information about the One-Blue licensing program and related royalty rates, should contact One-Blue, LLC at http://www.one-blue.com/.

About One-Blue
One-Blue, LLC, is the one-stop shop for patents essential to the Blu-ray Disc™ standard from leading licensors, including CyberLink, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co. Ltd., JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Taiyo Yuden and Yamaha. These fifteen Licensors have made available more than ten thousand issued Blu-ray Disc™ product patents worldwide that are essential to implementing the Blu-ray, DVD, and CD standards. One-Blue offers licenses for these patents for various Blu-ray Disc™  products including players, recorders, playback drives, recorder drives, software, PCs, pre-recorded discs, and recordable discs. One-Blue aims at creating a level playing field and thereby promotes competitive parity for all One-Blue licensees. One-Blue’s patent pool is built upon industry best practices with attractive royalties, low transaction costs and a streamlined patent licensing process.