Nokia sued over Bluetooth
p2pnet.net News:- Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Matsushita’s Panasonic have been sued by the Washington Research Foundation, which markets technology from the University of Washington, for allegedly violating a Bluetooth patent by using it without paying royalties.
“A University of Washington scientist Edwin Suominen was awarded a patent in 1999 for ’simplified high-frequency broadband tuner and tuning method’,” says Reuters.
Bluetooth is a wire replacement invented by Ericsson engineer Jaap Haartsen and developed by Ericsson and four other companies that made it available at no cost through the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), says the story, adding:
“Haartsen told Reuters that others had previously tried unsuccessfully to claim part of the Bluetooth technology.”
Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs), says the Wikipedia. It provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles via a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
“Any court ruling that would grant the research institute any ownership of the wireless technology would have a massive impact throughout the world of mobile electronics,” observes TG Daily
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Also See:
DigiTimes – Samsung begins sampling 50nm 16Gb NAND flash, January 3, 2007
TG Daily – US research firm sues three cell phone makers over Bluetooth, January 3, 2007
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