{"id":8860,"date":"2012-04-02T07:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T05:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T08:40:51","slug":"wi-fi-patent-suit-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/8860\/wi-fi-patent-suit-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi patent suit settled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s scientific research agency has reached a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement in the United States over the use of its wireless internet technology which underpins Wi-Fi<\/a> platforms worldwide.<\/p>\n

The government-run Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)<\/a> said the settlement for the Wireless local area networking (WLAN) patent was worth more than A$220 million ($229 million).<\/p>\n

WLAN technology, commonly known as wi-fi, was invented by CSIRO scientists in the 1990s, and is now used in over three billion computers, smartphones and other Internet-ready devices around the world.<\/p>\n

Since 2005, CSIRO has been suing companies for using the WLAN technology without a license. In 2009, it received A$205 million after reaching settlements with 14 companies.<\/p>\n

Following the latest settlement with companies including Lenovo<\/a>, Acer<\/a>, Sony<\/a> and AT&T<\/a>, the CSIRO has license agreements with 23 companies. Among them are lap-top makers, mobile carriers and wireless chip makers, which represent around 90 percent of the industry.<\/p>\n

More than five billion electronic devices will be sold around the world incorporating CSIRO’s WLAN technology by the time the patents expire in 2013, the agency said.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for CSIRO told Reuters on Monday that no decision had been made about further litigation, but CSIRO has not ruled out more cases.<\/p>\n

“We couldn’t see the evolution of the innovation system in the way it has, so we didn’t apply for patents in Latin America, in Russia, and either China or India,” Nigel Poole<\/a>, acting group executive of information sciences group at CSIRO, added.<\/p>\n

“With the benefit of hindsight of course we would have loved to have a Chinese patent or a patent in India as well,” he told local radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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