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Apple, HP, Dell, more sued over Bluetooth patent

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 for monetary damages as well as "triple damage" for "willful" infringement.

None of the companies sued have commented yet.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 10 Apr 2010 13:02

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• 5 comments

• bmlshane

  I believe a team at the CSIRO in Australia fist developed wireless Technology, and blue tooth was a development from it.
  

  warlock

  10.4.2010 23:10 #1

• xtago

  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.

  11.4.2010 05:05 #2

• 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

  11.4.2010 18:27 #3

• 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.
  

  Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
  
  
  

  12.4.2010 03:38 #4

• bluedogs

  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.
  

  Vista HP 64 bit,AMD 9850 x4, 4 Gig Ram,2 x LG DVD Burners, xFx 8800 GTS 640mb, 2x80 and 2 x 120 Gig Hdd SATA, 24" LCD LG Monitor

  16.4.2010 22:19 #5