U.S. Firms Take on Australia's CSIRO Over Patents

dingram17 writes "ABC News is reporting that six U.S. computer companies (Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft and Netgear) are taking legal action to try to break a U.S. patent that the CSIRO holds on wireless networking. The CSIRO has patents on OFDM technology, as used in 802.11a and 802.11g. It has been alleged that the CSIRO demands $4 per chipset for the use of this technology. It appears that the patent in question is U.S. Patent 5,487,069 'Wireless LAN.' From a quick look, this appears to be a wide ranging patent."

Comments

Re:A little help?

[servoled]

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SCrew the CSIRO

[_merlin]

I'm an Australian, and a researcher and an advocate of implementation patents, but I say screw the CSIRO. The CSIRO exists for the sole purpose of scamming government funding. They steal other researchers' ideas. They build inferior technologies. But they get all the attention and money. I hope they lose this court case.

Also, if they lose this case, maybe more people will succeed in overturning pthese stupid conceptual patents.

Re:As an Aussie

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

Sure they wouldn't. Especially your citizens that are so scared of knives and swords that they're banning them after banning guns didn't do anything for your rapidly rising crime rate.