Louisville, Colorado, May 21, 2003—Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs®), in conjunction with the DVB Project and Sughrue Mion PLLC, will host an informative meeting for parties who believe they may have patents required for implementation of the OpenCable™ Application Platform (OCAP™) specification.

The meeting will be held in Chicago on Monday, June 9, from 9:30am to 10:30am in Room N 426B of the McCormick Place Convention Center.

The meeting will also address patents related to DVB�s Globally Executable MHP (GEM) specification. OCAP is based on GEM.

Companies that believe they have patents required for implementation of the OCAP specification should submit a declaration to the Patent Coordinator, Sughrue Mion PLLC, c/o Alan J. Kasper, Esq., 2100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C., 20037-3213. The declaration form is available at www.opencable.com.

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