MHP Logo Licence
MHP Test Suite & Logo Licensing
MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is DVB’s middleware standard for interactive television. For more information about MHP please visit the MHP website at www.mhp.org. The procedure for obtaining the right to use the MHP logo differs from that used in the case of the DVB logo. Implementers need to run a standard set of tests, and the process is administered not by DVB Services Sarl, but rather by a "Custodian". Here is a summary of the process:
- A prospective MHP implementer requests the "MHP Test Suite" from the MHP Custodian, ETSI, against payment of an administrative fee of EUR €1000, and delivery of two signed copies of the "MHP Test Application License Agreements".
- At this stage the implementer can also request various elements of source code and test harnesses to aid him.
- Once the candidate implementation has passed the MHP Test Suite, the implementer delivers to ETSI (http://www.etsi.org/) its Certificate of Completion of Conformance Testing. Furthermore, two signed copies of the MHP Mark License Agreement need to be sent to DVB Services Sarl.
- The MHP implementer is then entitled to use the MHP Mark provided it pays DVB Services Sarl a EUR €10,000 initial licence fee (and an annual licence fee for each subsequent year). For payment details contact info@dvbservices.com.
- To obtain licenses 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 license;
- 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.
- The DVB BlueBook A066r1 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.
For a more complete outline of the process summarised here, please visit www.mhp.org