Sky Italia Picks Patents from Gemstar-TV Guide
DBS Provider Licenses IPG Technology
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 7/5/2007 3:43:00 AM
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia, a satellite-television service with 4 million subscribers, signed a multiyear patent-licensing agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide International.
The deal lets Sky Italia use Gemstar-TV Guide's intellectual property related to electronic program guides. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
In December, Gemstar-TV Guide signed a similar agreement with British Sky Broadcasting to use EPG patents in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
It also recently announced patent-licensing deals with Verizon Communications and TV-listings provider MeeVee.
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