Title: Toshiba America Research's general license statement Received: 1 April 2005 From: Stephen Parker General Statement Toshiba America Research, Inc. (TARI) would like to affirm that it will offer patent licenses for submissions made by it which are adopted or recommended as a standard by your organization as follows: if parts of a submission by TARI are included in a standard and TARI is the owner of patents and/or pending applications that are essential to implementation of such included parts in said standard, TARI is prepared to grant - on the basis of reciprocity (i.e., grantback) - a license on such included parts on reasonable, non-discriminatory terms and conditions, provided that TARI has the right to grant such a license. It is also noted that parts of existing and future submissions by TARI may have patent applications currently or later filed. TARI Contact: Toshikazu Kodama President Toshiba America Research, Inc. P.O. Box 429 Piscataway, NJ 08854-4151 Location: 1 Telcordia Drvie Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: 732-699-2375 (E-mail: info@tari.toshiba.com )