From marianna@tmmlive.com Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:29:01 -0700
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:29:01 -0700
From: Marianna Hamilton marianna@tmmlive.com
Subject: [Patents] [IT-Xchange] Patents & Licensing

Dear Nicolas,

Our patents do NOT cover any specific mp3 implementation (software), but the
principles of the mp3 coding technology as standardized by ISO/IEC. Please
visit our website http://mp3licensing.com, especially
http://mp3licensing.com/patents.html for more details on our patents.

Marianna


4:41 PM 6/7/00*******************

Marianna S. Hamilton - THOMSON multimedia - mp3 Licensing
Tel:  +1.858.485.4207
Email: marianna@tmmlive.com

Please visit http://www.mp3licensing.com for further details on mp3
licensing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas MONNET [mailto:nico@monnet.to]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:58 AM
To: info@mp3licensing.com
Cc: patents@liberte.aful.org
Subject: [IT-Xchange] Patents & Licensing



Hello,

Could you please enlighten me WRT the enforceability of your patents
related MP3s in Europe, esp. considering that pure software patents are
normally not legal in Europe.

(ref: http://www.freepatents.org/law/)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas MONNET, Technical Director, IT-Xchange

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