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Electronics Groups Sued Over Bluetooth
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 05:16:26 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Financial Times. [snip] A research foundation backed by the state of Washington has sued three of the worlds biggest consumer electronics makers over claims that they have infringed a series of patents surrounding the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. The suit, filed in Federal court in Seattle, claims that Matsushita, Samsung and Nokia should have sought a licence before using the technology in cellphones, headsets and other electronic equipment. The Washington Research Foundation, which said it was acting on behalf of the University of Washington, owner of the patents in dispute, said it had already secured a licence over the technology from Broadcom, one of the biggest makers of communications chips, that would cover any consumer electronics that employ Bluetooth chipsets made by Broadcom. However, it said that the three companies had all sold devices based on chipsets made by British-based CSR, which had not been licensed. [snip] More: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c48366ba-9ace-11db-bbd2-0000779e2340.html Hmmm. If you see: http://www.wrfseattle.org/ you'll notice that this "foundation" is based in "Seattle" and "...is Best When Viewed with Internet Explorer." This should be entertaining. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFmzv8q1pz9mNUZTMRAkNRAJ47pgY/8+6fmqD5mUvO296f8hIWRQCgp5iD z8svfyZGGfHvueICFXE14qQ= =ssCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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