MHP Test Suites

 
 
 
 
 

ETSI is the Custodian of the DVB Project Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) Test Suites.

The checklist below follows the steps an implementer will take from review of the MHP specification, conformance testing using the MHP Test Suite, licensing intellectual property rights essential to the specification and placing the MHP Mark on conforming equipment.
In summary, the implementer requests the MHP Test Suites from ETSI upon payment of an ETSI administrative fee of 1 000 € and delivery of 2 signed copies of the test application licence agreements. The implementer can also request various elements of source code and test harnesses. Once its implementation has passed the MHP test suite, the implementer delivers to ETSI its certificate of completion of conformance testing joined by two signed copies of the MHP Mark Licence Agreement. It's entitled to use the MHP Mark for which it pays the DVB Project Office a 10 000 € initial royalty and an annual royalty. For IPR essential to the MHP specification, the implementer has several options at the time it delivers its certificate of completion of conformance testing: it can sign a short-form patent licence; it could enter into a broader licensing arrangement with the MHP technology providers, or it could take the view that it has developed the MHP implementation on a clean-room basis.
DVB BlueBook A066 contains a complete set of all the legal documents and explanations on how to proceed if you would like to implement MHP and gain the right to use the MHP logo.

Corrigenda and Addenda n°1 to DVB Blue Book A066 rev. 1

 

MHP Conformance Testing and IPR Licencing checklist

Step

 Action

IPR Licensing and/or Fee

Document links 
1. Considering Implementation
  • Examine the MHP Specification
  • Third party websites may have click through limitations
  • No Fees at this stage
2. Implementation - Testing
a) MHP Test Suites
  • Send ETSI two signed copies of each Test Application Licence for MHP Test Suite

Review licencing terms
ETSI administrative fee 1 000€
No royalty at present
Payment details
2. Implementation - Testing
b) Source Code, Test Harness
  • At your option send ETSI two signed copies of each Source Code and of each Test Harness Licence
  • Review licencing terms
  • No additional administrative fee
  • No royalty at present
3. Implementing - Market Launch
(MHP logo)
  • Send ETSI a Certificate of Completion of Conformance Testing
  • Send two signed copies of the MHP Mark Licence Agreement to DVB Project Office
  • 10 000 € royalty, to be paid to DVB
4. IPR Licencing
further details below*
4. a)Short Form
(Claim no essential IPR)
  • Send two signed copies of each Essential IPR Licence to ETSI
  • Review licensing terms
  • No royalty
4. b) Short-form
1$ patent licence agreement
  • Send two signed copies of the 1$ Patent licence agreement to Sun
  • Inform  ETSI that you have signed the  1$ agreement with Sun
  
4. c) Long-form licence
with IPR holder
  • Make direct contact with the licencor
  • Send ETSI notice of your licencing option
    
4. d) No licence
(clean-room implementer)
  • Indicate in writing to ETSI that you have chosen not to deliver an Essential IPR Licence
    

*Licencing of Essential IPR's:
When you have completed conformance testing and your implementation successfully passes the MHP Test Suite, you can obtain, from ETSI as custodian for certain licencors, a licence of IPR essential to the MHP specification. To date, only Sun has offered forms of IPR licences. Other Licencors have to be contacted directly.  There are several options depending on which licencing arrangement you choose to enter into.

  1. a) Short-form licence of essential IPR:
    Under the terms of the Essential IPR Licence offered by Sun, you as licencee agree not to bring any claims for infringement of your own IPR essentials to the MHP specification
  2. b) Short-form, $ 1 patent licence agreement:
    If you intend to seek a royalty from implementers based on your own essential IPR you should contact Sun directly. Sun has indicated that in such cases it will assess you a royalty not to exceed US$ 1 for each hardware unit.
  3. c) Long-form licence with IPR holder:
    If you wish to go beyond the licencing arrangements set out in an Essential IPR licence and enter into a broader arrangement with one or more licencors, make direct contact with the licencor. Royalty and other terms are subject to bilateral negotiations.
  4. d) No licence (clean-room implementer):
    Indicate in writing to ETSI that you have chosen not to deliver an Essential IPR Licence

For further information contact:

 DVB Project Office  MHP Custodian / ETSI

Eva  Markvoort,
DVB Project Office
c/o EBU, 17a Ancienne Route,
CH-1218 Grand Saconnex (GE)
Switzerland.
Tel: +41 22 717 2719
Fax: +41 22 717 2727
E-mail:  markvoort@dvb.org
www: http://www.dvb.org		 Gina Ebenezersson,
European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI),
650, Route des Lucioles,
F-06921 Sophia Antipolis,
France.
Tel: +33 4 9294 4216
Fax: +33 4 9294 4270
E-mail: ETSIAlgorithms