Established in 1982, SISVEL has become one of the world's leaders inmanaging intellectual property and maximizing the value of patent rights. TheSisvel Group is global in scope and reach, with companies in Italy (Sisvel inNone Torinese and Edico in Rome), the United States (Audio MPEG inMetropolitan Washington, DC), China (Sisvel Hong Kong), Japan (Sisvel Japanin Tokyo), and Germany (Sisvel Germany in Stuttgart), and with more thanseventy professionals worldwide with technical, legal, and licensing expertise.SISVEL has a long history of managing successful patent portfolios includingthose related to the audio compression standards known as MP3 and MPEGAudio, and widespread technologies such as OSD (On Screen Display), ATSS(Automatic Tuning & Sorting System), and WSS (Wide Screen Signaling - forautomatic switching of television image formats). Most recently SISVEL hasbeen appointed as the administrator of the DVB-T patent pool related to thewidely adopted terrestrial digital television broadcast standard. Additionalinformation regarding Sisvel is available at www.sisvel.com or by sending usan email to newbusiness@sisvel.com