Bluetooth - problems in the air?
A little legal wrangling in our neck of the woods.
From
C|Net News/Reuters:
U.S. group sues Nokia, Samsung over Bluetooth
An intellectual-property management group has sued mobile phone makers Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Matsushita-owned Panasonic for infringing on a patent for wireless Bluetooth technology.
"Defendants have manufactured, used, imported into the United States, sold and offered for sale devices which, or the use of which, infringes at least the '963' patent," Washington Research Foundation said in a complaint filed at the U.S. Western District Court of Washington at Seattle. WRF helps manage investment in and licensing of technology developed by researchers in the state of Washington.
The WRF complaint targeted products containing Bluetooth chips from British chipmaker CSR, which is the world market leader for chips that wirelessly connect electronic gadgets such as cell phones, headsets and laptops.
And the outcome is that a few lawyers will get richer, the costs will be passed on to the consumer and it will be business as usual.
Call me a cynic...
Posted by DaveH at January 3, 2007 9:11 AM
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