The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba, has filed a demand for arbitration to collect royalties allegedly due under DVD6C patent licenses from Huizhou Freeway Electronics Co., Ltd.

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, Time Warner.

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Unedited press release follows:

Toshiba, the authorized licensor for DVD6C, commences arbitration to collect royalties due from DVD6C patent licensee

July 11, 2013 — The DVD6C Licensing Group (“DVD6C”) — consisting of nine leading developers of DVD technology — today announced that their authorized licensor, Toshiba, has filed a demand for arbitration to collect royalties due from Huizhou Freeway Electronics Co., Ltd. under the DVD6C patent license. This arbitration is part of a continuing global initiative by the DVD6C Licensing Group to collect unpaid royalties. This is the thirteenth arbitration Toshiba has brought in support of this initiative.