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Sorry folks, I forgot to put the source. I was editing and adding something and it got misplaced along with some other information. No intention of taking the credit or passing that text as my own. Multispectral solutions has a well written FAQ and needs no rewording. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

Looks like an unattributed rip of part of the FAQ from this site:
http://www.multispectral.com/

In May 2002, the 2002 IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies will be held in Baltimore, MD. About 70 papers will be presented on UWB channel modeling, interference issues, applications, and signal processing. The URL for the Conference is:

IEEE UWBST 2002 Conference

In addition, a useful UWB FAQ can be found at UWB FAQ

My understanding is that the court told McEwan to go pound sand last year. Do you have more up-to-date info?

While one examiner from the USPTO initially suggested that key claims may have been anticipated by Fullerton, their final ruling was in favor of The Regents of the University of California, assignee of the MIR patent (5,361,070) in dispute. (This work was performed by the inventor, Thomas McEwan, while an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The final USPTO decision (a copy of which can be found at Rexexam, stated that "[a]s a result of reexamination, it has been determined that: The patentability of claims 1-20 is confirmed. New claims 21-49 are added and determined to be patentable."

Thus, all of the original claims made in the "MIR" patent were upheld by the USPTO; and the patent was furthered strengthened by the addition of 29 new claims.

For a discussion of UWB from a technology company that has been active in the field for over 13 years, check out these links:

UWB Frequently Asked Questions

History of UWB technology [from perspectives of 4 experts in field]

Various papers and presentations on UWB technology

Multispectral Solutions' submissions to FCC UWB proceeding

For a discussion of UWB from a technology company that has been active in the field for over 13 years, check out these links:

UWB Frequently Asked Questions

History of UWB technology [from perspectives of 4 experts in field]

Various papers and presentations on UWB technology

Multispectral Solutions' submissions to FCC UWB proceeding

For a discussion of UWB from a technology company that has been active in the field for over 13 years, check out these links:

UWB Frequently Asked Questions

History of UWB technology [from perspectives of 4 experts in field]

Various papers and presentations on UWB technology

Multispectral Solutions' submissions to FCC UWB proceeding

For a discussion of UWB from a technology company that has been active in the field for over 13 years, check out these links:

UWB Frequently Asked Questions

History of UWB technology [from perspectives of 4 experts in field]

Various papers and presentations on UWB technology

Multispectral Solutions' submissions to FCC UWB proceeding

Here are a few more articles on the subject that IMHO are a bit more substantive:

From BusinessWeek

From M Commerce Times

Some Information on its Problems:

A brief primer from the Ultra Wideband Working Group

And a very in depth look at the history of UWB

-john

Multi Spectral is the leader! Not Time domain.

This link summarizes the history of UWB technology. Pretty neat stuff. Apparently they have been experimenting with various impulse based radio/radar signals since the early sixties.