Title: Sony Corporation's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-06.txt
Received: 25 October 2004 
From: Satoshi Futemma <satosi-f@sm.sony.co.jp>


To: IETF Secretariat

Dear Sirs:

Sony Corporation hereby declares that it is prepared to license
its published patent applications, "P2003-209839A(JP)" and "US20030091054",
which are necessary to manufacture, use, and sell implementations of the
proposed Internet-Draft, "RTP payload format for JPEG 2000 Video
Streams Standard (draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-06.txt).

Sony Corporation hereby also declares that it is willing to grant
a license to an unlimited number of applicants throughout the world
under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions that
are demonstrably free of any unfair competition, provided that such
parties obtaining such license from Sony Corporation agree to license
Sony Corporation their patents necessary for Sony Corporation to
practice the above mentioned standard, if any, on a reciprocal basis.

Very truly yours,


Eisaburou Itakura, Senior Manager
Communication Technology Laboratory,
Information Technologies Laboratories
Sony Corporation
6-7-35 Kitashinagawa Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
141-0001 Japan
Phone: +81 3 5448 2125
Email: itakura@sm.sony.co.jp