July 27, 2005 To: IETF Secretariat Dear Sirs: Sony Corporation hereby declares that it is prepared to license its published patent applications, "P2003-209839A(JP)" and "US20030091054", which are necessary to manufacture, use, and sell implementations of the proposed Internet-Draft, "Enhanced Payload Format for Priority & Header Processing RTP Payload Format for JPEG 2000 Video Streams BEAM extension" (draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-beam-01.txt). Sony Corporation hereby also declares that it is willing to grant a license to an unlimited number of applicants throughout the world under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair competition, provided that such parties obtaining such license from Sony Corporation agree to license Sony Corporation their patents necessary for Sony Corporation to practice the above mentioned standard, if any, on a reciprocal basis. Very truly yours, Satoshi Futemma Communication Technology Laboratory, IFL, Sony Corporation 6-7-35 Kitashinagawa Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0001 Japan Phone: +81 3 5448 2125 Email: satosi-f@sm.sony.co.jp