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Apple, HP, Dell, more sued over Bluetooth patent

article published on 10 April, 2010

Wi-Lan, the Canadian technology licensing company, has sued Apple, HP, Dell and 16 other companies over a patent related to Bluetooth technology used in mobile phones. The Canadian company says all 19 companies are infringing on their 1996 patent, which calls for a "method for frequency sharing and frequency punchout in frequency hopping communications network." Wi-Lan is looking ... [ read the full article ]

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bmlshane
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_ 		10. April 2010 @ 23:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I believe a team at the CSIRO in Australia fist developed wireless Technology, and blue tooth was a development from it.
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xtago
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_ 		11. April 2010 @ 05:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Doesn't matter it goes by who owns the patent.

An Australia and an German made penicillin in the UK but an amercian company patented the metod they came up with.

So going by the patents alone it'd be invented by an American company when that's not true.
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beanos66
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_ 		11. April 2010 @ 18:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
bluetooth according to wikpaedia was developed in 1994 by ericsson

so csiro and ericsson do the hardwork then wi-lan come in and file the patent

just like they did with the v-chip patent

these people are scum
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Jemborg
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_ 		12. April 2010 @ 03:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by beanos66:
 bluetooth according to wikpaedia was developed in 1994 by ericsson

so csiro and ericsson do the hardwork then wi-lan come in and file the patent

just like they did with the v-chip patent

these people are scum
Too right.

I'm so fed up with these time-wasting litergous scum.
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bluedogs
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_ 		16. April 2010 @ 22:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by beanos66:
 bluetooth according to wikpaedia was developed in 1994 by ericsson

so csiro and ericsson do the hardwork then wi-lan come in and file the patent

just like they did with the v-chip patent

these people are scum
Too right.

I'm so fed up with these time-wasting litergous scum.
Here here.
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