Yet Another Company Claims Patents Over WiFi, Begins Suing
from the patent-thicket dept
The patent thicket around basic WiFi technology continues to grow. Over the years, we've pointed to a wide variety of companies that were claiming to hold patents that were infringed by every implementation of WiFi. In other words, WiFi's got a huge patent thicket issue to deal with. The latest is that Canadian patent hoarder Mosaid Technologies has claimed that its patents are violated, and has sued bunch of companies, including Dell, RIM and AsusTek. Kinda funny that it seems like every one of the companies suing over WiFi patents doesn't actually make anything themselves...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: patents, wifi
Companies: asustek, dell, mosaid, rim
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Heaven help us if this sort of common sense was spread to copyrights.
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Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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If you're familiar with what these companies do, patent hoarder is an accurate description.
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READ, maybe, AC #6?
He didn't say "IP company", he said it's NAME.
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I think it's time I get a law degree and create a broad patent. I'll be rich in a few years.
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