appendix _ 115LICENSEThe product unit accompanying this user manual is licensed under certainintellectual property rights of certain third parties. In particular, this product islicensed under the following US patents : 5,991,715, 5,740,317, 4,972,484,5,214,678, 5,323,396, 5,539,829, 5,606,618, 5,530,655, 5,777,992, 6,289,308,5,610,985, 5,481,643, 5,544,247, 5,960,037, 6,023,490, 5,878,080, and underUS Published Patent ApplicationNo. 2001-44713-A1.This license is limited to private non-commercial use by end-user consumers forlicensed contents. No rights are granted for commercial use. The license doesnot cover any product unit other than this product unit and the license does notextend to any unli-censed product unit or process conforming to ISO/IEC 11172-3 or ISO/IEC 13818-3 used or sold in combination with this product unit. Thelicense only covers the use of this product unit to encode and/or decode audiofiles conforming to the ISO/IEC 11172-3 or ISO/IEC 13818-3. No rights aregranted under this license for product features or func-tions that do not conformto the ISO/IEC 11172-3 or ISO/IEC 13818-3.