How many licenses does an AVC user need?
It is up to each user to determine its own licensing needs and how it wishes to meet them. The AVC Patent Portfolio License is provided for a user’s convenience in acquiring patent rights necessary for the AVC Standard from multiple essential patent holders in a single transaction rather than electing its option to negotiate separate license agreements with individual essential patent holders. But, users have the right to separately negotiate a license with any and all of the essential patent holders under any and all of the essential patents under terms to be independently negotiated by each. In addition, as discussed above, users who take MPEG LA’s license may have to negotiate licenses for essential patents that are not included. A license also may be necessary for other important patents (which are not essential to the AVC standard) that may be used.
