Mosaid gets into WiFi patent game, sues 17 companies: Dell, Canon, Asus, RIM.....
Mosaid gets into WiFi patent game, sues 17 companies including Dell, Canon, Asus, and RIM
Whether or not you agree with their tactics, lots of companies are finding it quite lucrative business to spend more time in the courts than in the research labs. CSIRO got some tasty settlements back in 2009, while just a few months agohttp://www.engadget.com/tag/wi-lan
received "a significant amount" in a settlement from Intel. Now it's Mosaid's turn, a Kanata, Ontario-based company that bills itself as "one of the world's leading intellectual property (IP) companies, focused on the licensing and development of semiconductor and communications technologies." Indeed it just licensed some of those properties to LG on the 15th, but the very next day it filed suit against a 17 defendants for infringing on six of the company's patents, relating to network discovery, multiplexing, and other wireless techniques. Among those companies is RIM; which has its Torch, Style, Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm handsets called out; and Asus, which has a long line of motherboards, routers, and other products said to be in jeopardy. As ever it's hard to draw the line between the patent trolls and the legitimately infringed, but that the lawsuit was filed in litigation-friendly Marshall, Texas doesn't leave us with a particularly good feeling.
The complete list of companies sued:
* AsusTek Computer Inc.
* Atheros Communications, Inc.
* Canon U.S.A., Inc.
* CSR plc
* Dell, Inc.
* Digi International Inc.
* Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
* Intel Corporation
* Lexmark International, Inc.
* Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
* Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
* Ralink Technology Corporation
* Realtek Semiconductor
* Research in Motion Corporation
* Wasp Barcode Technologies, Ltd.
* Wistron Corporation
* Venture Research, Inc.
Whether or not you agree with their tactics, lots of companies are finding it quite lucrative business to spend more time in the courts than in the research labs. CSIRO got some tasty settlements back in 2009, while just a few months agohttp://www.engadget.com/tag/wi-lan
received "a significant amount" in a settlement from Intel. Now it's Mosaid's turn, a Kanata, Ontario-based company that bills itself as "one of the world's leading intellectual property (IP) companies, focused on the licensing and development of semiconductor and communications technologies." Indeed it just licensed some of those properties to LG on the 15th, but the very next day it filed suit against a 17 defendants for infringing on six of the company's patents, relating to network discovery, multiplexing, and other wireless techniques. Among those companies is RIM; which has its Torch, Style, Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm handsets called out; and Asus, which has a long line of motherboards, routers, and other products said to be in jeopardy. As ever it's hard to draw the line between the patent trolls and the legitimately infringed, but that the lawsuit was filed in litigation-friendly Marshall, Texas doesn't leave us with a particularly good feeling.
The complete list of companies sued:
* AsusTek Computer Inc.
* Atheros Communications, Inc.
* Canon U.S.A., Inc.
* CSR plc
* Dell, Inc.
* Digi International Inc.
* Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
* Intel Corporation
* Lexmark International, Inc.
* Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
* Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
* Ralink Technology Corporation
* Realtek Semiconductor
* Research in Motion Corporation
* Wasp Barcode Technologies, Ltd.
* Wistron Corporation
* Venture Research, Inc.
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