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Wi-Lan sues Apple, HP, others on Bluetooth patent
Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK
Thu Apr 8, 2010 3:12pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wi-Lan Inc, the Canadian technology licensing company, has filed a lawsuit accusing 19 computer and phone companies of infringing a patent by selling laptops and cellular handsets enabled with Bluetooth technology.
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Among the defendants are some of the world's best-known technology providers, including Apple Inc, Dell Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and Intel Corp.
Bluetooth is a wireless technology that uses radio waves to transmit digital voices and data over short distances from such devices as laptop computers, cellular phones and cameras. It permits such activities as hands-free phone calling and photo downloading.
In a complaint filed on Wednesday in a Marshall, Texas, federal court, Wi-Lan said the 19 companies are deliberately infringing its 1996 patent, "method for frequency sharing and frequency punchout in frequency hopping communications network," by selling Bluetooth-enabled products.
The Ottawa-based company seeks unspecified compensatory damages, plus triple damages for "willful" infringement.
An Intel spokesman declined to comment, saying the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker had yet to review the complaint. A spokeswoman for Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard declined to comment. Representatives of Apple and Dell did not return requests for comment.
Wi-Lan has filed other patent lawsuits against many of the same defendants in the same court.
Shares of Wi-Lan were up 2 cents at C$2.85 in afternoon trading in Toronto.
The case is Wi-Lan Inc v. Acer Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, No. 10-00124.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Additional reporting by Sinead Carew, editing by Dave Zimmerman, Bernard Orr)
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Apr 09, 2010 10:44am EDT
I never knew that Wi-Lan were involved in the development of Bluetooth. The main technology here comes from Ericsson and is a blueprint of the DECT frequency hopping that is a ITU standard.
All the main GSM handset makers contributed to this, but Wi-Lan has never developed or sold a single mobile phone.
I hope they at least changed the colour of it so they have some contribution to show when they meet in court. Otherwise, this is how US products gets expensive and American lawyers earn their living. If they do not argue, then raise hell and drag them to court to settle the matter so they can be paid.
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Apr 09, 2010 1:44pm EDT
Just another company that is owned by lawyers looking for a pay day. They file nuisance suites then wait for the companies to pay them to go away.
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