Taipei, Taiwan—-July 21, 2006—-CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, announced today ownership of a patent for technology that is essential to the Blu-ray Disc standard. The patent relates to the specifications for interactive content over a network for prerecorded Blu-ray Discs, BD-RO specification part 3-2, the BD-J profile 2.

CyberLink recently attended the first meeting of the Blu-ray Disc patent holders meeting, which was held to formulate a joint patent license for Blu-ray Disc technologies. The joint license is designed to simplify the licensing arrangements for the Blu-ray Disc format and is being managed by MPEG LA on behalf of 17 essential patent owners, including CyberLink.

“With our core value of innovation, CyberLink strongly believes research and development is the key to future success,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “We’re proud to be a part of the MPEG LA joint license agreement based on our essential patent for technologies relating to the BD-J specification of the Blu-ray Disc standard.”

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