Over the last 5 years, many major TV manufacturers, most of them ...
Over the last 5 years, many major TV manufacturers, most of them CEA members, have acquired V-chip licenses from technology patent holder Tri-Vision International, and those license agreements have been fair, nondiscriminatory and based on reasonable royalties, said V-chip…
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inventor Tim Collings and Najmul Siddiqui, Tri-Vision CEO, in a filing at the FCC. Their filing was to oppose CEA’s petition saying the FCC should monitor Collings and Tri-Vision because they, through V-chip license agreements, were “expecting a financial windfall that television manufacturers, and ultimately U.S. consumers, would have to fund.” Now that V- chips are required in TV sets, “no unreasonable royalty or licensing policies have been brought to the attention of the Commission,” either in the CEA petition or in the proceedings leading up to the FCC’s order, Collings and Siddiqui said. Tri-Vision “will do whatever is necessary to ensure that the terms of the resultant licenses are reasonable, nondiscriminatory and fair and, to the greatest extent possible, mutually agreeable,” the filing said.