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Saint Lawrence Communications LLC and Saint Lawrence Communications GmbH own and license standards essential voice
coding patents that were developed by VoiceAge Corporation which is based in Montreal, Quebec.
VoiceAge Corporation (“VoiceAge”) has been a pioneer in speech and audio
compression technologies since its creation in 1999. VoiceAge is widely recognized as the
world’s leader in developing cutting-edge technologies for wideband, low bit rate speech and
audio compression. For example, VoiceAge provided the core technologies for at least nine
international speech and audio standards-based codecs used in both wireless and wireline
markets and applications. VoiceAge’s patented technologies have won every international audio
compression standard to which they have been submitted during the last thirteen years, including
to the Third Generation Partnership Project (“3GPP”), 3GPP2, the International
Telecommunications Union (“ITU”), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(“ETSI”), and the Motion Picture Experts Group (“MPEG”) of the International Organization for
Standardization (“ISO”).
Saint Lawrence patent portfolio is comprised of over 225 U.S. and international patents from among 9 patent families.”