January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 1Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments Texas Instruments 141 Stony Circle, Suite 130 Santa Rosa California (707) Texas Instruments IEEE g Royalty-Free Intellectual Property Statement Chris Heegard, CTO, Home and Wireless Networking

January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 2Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments Introduction This submission is being provided to the IEEE g Task Group to notify the group that Texas Instruments Incorporated has submit an intellectual property statement with respect to the IEEE g activity. The official letter has been sent to Stuart Kerry, Chair of the IEEE Working Group, and to the IEEE Patent Office. Earle Thompson of the Texas Instruments Legal Department submitted the letter. Earle may be contacted as e-

January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 3Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments

January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 4Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments

January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 5Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments General Terms Texas Instruments Incorporated (“TI”) is pleased to announce that TI shall, upon request, grant non-exclusive licenses on reasonable and non- discriminatory terms (which may include TI’s then current royalty rates) for only such portion of any product which is fully compliant with the IEEE g standard, to any such requester under any existing and pending patents of TI which would necessarily be directly infringed by the manufacture, sale and implementation of such product solely because it is fully compliant with the IEEE g standard, and provided that a similar grant under such requester’s patents within the scope of the license granted to such requester is made available to TI.

January, 2001 doc.: IEEE /023r1 Slide 6Submission Chris Heegard, Texas Instruments Royalty-free Licenses Further, should the proposal exemplified in the Word formatted document IEEE TGg High Rate Standard authored by C. Heegard, M. Shoemake, E. Rossin, S. Coffey and A. Batra (document number IEEE /384) be adopted in its entirety (including protocols, physical layer specifications, fallback modes, etc., excepting TI approved minor modifications) as the sole mandatory implementation for the IEEE g standard, TI shall, upon request, grant non-exclusive royalty-free licenses only for such portion of any product which is fully compliant with the IEEE g standard, to any such requester under any existing and pending patents of TI which would necessarily be directly infringed by the manufacture, sale and implementation of such product solely because it is fully compliant with such IEEE g standard, and provided that a similar royalty-free grant under such requester’s patents within the scope of the license granted to such requester is made available to TI.