Toshiba joins G.729 Consortium

MONTREAL: Sipro Lab Telecom (Sipro), the G.729 Patent Pool Licensing Administrator, today announced that Toshiba Corporation has joined the G.729 Consortium.

The G.729 Consortium now represents and pools together the intellectual property rights (IPR) essential to this ITU-T standard of France Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Universite de Sherbrooke, and Toshiba Corporation -- all players in the area of speech coding and processing solutions.

Sipro now represents the IPR portfolio of five major telecommunication innovators related to the G.729 technology on a worldwide basis.

"Adding Toshiba's IPR to the Patent Pool license delivers added value for all existing and potential future licensees of the IPR represented by the G.729 Consortium which through its licensing agent, Sipro, provides a single point of contact to a more comprehensive pool of essential patents," says Catharie Bechamp, Sipro's vice president Licensing.

Sipro and the G.729 Consortium have agreed to maintain the current Patent Pool licensing terms and rates with the added value of Toshiba's essential patents to ease the continued use of this proven speech coding solution by the telecommunication industry.