Gemstar-TV Guide and Digeo Enter Into Patent License Agreement
21 Abril 2008 - 7:45AM
Business Wire
Gemstar-TV Guide (NASDAQ: GMST), a leading media, entertainment and
technology company, and Digeo, Inc., maker of the Moxi� DVR, which
includes the Emmy�-award winning Moxi Menu, today announced that
they have entered into a multi-year patent license agreement and
settled their outstanding litigation by mutually dismissing claims.
In the agreement, Gemstar TV-Guide provides Digeo with a patent
license to cover Digeo�s currently deployed program guides (IPGs),
as well as IPGs that Digeo plans to deploy with service providers
and for use on consumer electronic (CE) and personal computer (PC)
platforms. Financial terms were not disclosed. About Gemstar-TV
Guide Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (the �Company�) (NASDAQ:
GMST) is a leading global media, entertainment, and technology
company that develops, licenses, markets and distributes products
and services that maximize the video guidance and entertainment
experience for consumers. The Company's businesses include:
television, publishing, and new media properties; interactive
program guide services and products; and intellectual property
licensing. Additional information about the Company can be found at
www.gemstartvguide.com. About Digeo, Inc. Digeo, Inc. creates
state-of-the-art home entertainment technologies, including digital
media recorder (DMR) platforms and services. The company�s mission
is to enable the best consumer experience in high-definition
entertainment for the connected home. Digeo's flagship product -
the two-time Emmy� Award-winning Moxi Media Center - serves as a
hub for whole-home distribution of digital entertainment and more
than 400,000 units have been shipped to more than 100 markets by
eight cable operators nationwide.�The company also licenses its
technology to third-party companies as the user interface,
application or customer connection portal to drive their products
or services. Backed primarily by Paul Allen's Vulcan, Inc., Digeo
is based in Kirkland, Wash. For more information, please visit
www.digeo.com. This news release may contain forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Any such forward-looking statements
are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve
risks and uncertainties that may cause actual performance or
results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements, including risks and uncertainties related to the timely
availability and market acceptance of products and services
incorporating the Company's technologies and content; our
investments in new and existing businesses; the impact of
competitive products and services; the pending acquisition of the
Company by Macrovision Corporation and events and circumstances
related thereto; and the other risks detailed from time to time in
the Company's SEC reports, including the most recent reports on
Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, each as it may be amended from time to
time. The Company assumes no obligation to update these
forward-looking statements Note to Editors: Gemstar and TV Guide
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gemstar-TV Guide
International, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. The names of other
companies, products and services used herein are for identification
purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Digeo�, Moxi� are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
Digeo, Inc. Use of the trademarks and service marks of the National
Television Academy (�NTA�), including the mark EMMY�, requires the
prior express written permission of National Television Academy.
All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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