The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba, has filed demands for arbitration to collect royalties allegedly due under DVD6C patent licenses with Axiom Technologies Manufacturing Pte Ltd. (Singapore), GDD Manufacturing S.r.l. (Italy) and Premium Disc Corporation (Canada).

According to the statement, these arbitrations are part of a global initiative by the DVD6C Licensing Group to collect unpaid royalties. These three new arbitrations bring the total number of arbitrations filed by Toshiba this year to ten.

As a matter of background, the DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) is a patent pool formed by nine developers of DVD technology including Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo Electric, Sharp, Toshiba, JVC and Time Warner.

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