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CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent
An anonymous reader notes that CSIRO has sued Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in — wait for it — East Texas District Court. "Australia's peak science body stands to reap more than $1 billion from its lucrative Wi-Fi patent after already netting about $250 million from the world's biggest technology companies, an intellectual property lawyer says. The CSIRO has spent years battling 14 technology giants including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Nintendo, and Toshiba for royalties and made a major breakthrough in April last year when the companies opted to avoid a jury hearing and settle for an estimated $250 million. Now, the organization is bringing the fight to the top three US mobile carriers in a new suit targeting Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile. It argues they have been selling devices that infringe its patents."
Eat my shorts slashdot !!
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Did you ever wake up in the morning, with a Zombie Woof behind your eyes? -- FZ
A patent troll is a patent troll. It doesn't matter who they are or who they are suing. The carriers are doing something with this technology and simply inventing it does not entitle CSIRO to an automatic right to be paid money, or worse to deny its use for the benefit of everyone.
Simply having an idea is not enough justification for being given an absolute worldwide monopoly on it. Ideas have no intrinsic value. If you want to protect your ideas then you must do something with them. Only then will they be protected. CSIRO did not do anything with their ideas. The US carriers did. In my mind, that makes the carriers the more legitimate "owners" of these ideas--as distasteful I find supporting large corporations.
May the Maths Be with you!
Not alleging they are a patent troll.
Humans judge one another by actions.
If you are seen harassing kids smaller than you then your called a bully.
But, if nobody ever saw the kids you were having this altercation with do it first then you will be labeled a bully.
So, here we are... if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it must be a duck.
Patent trolls love to litigate, so these guys appear to like to litigate.... and they love the East Texas District Court...
I have no idea who did what to who, but it does not help your image when all everyone sees is you litigating in the patent troll arena.
Hence my statement.. 'if you don't want to be labeled a patent troll, don't act like one.'
this type of shit should be fair use for all. you greedy jew
And Microsoft actually developed a file format. Do you think Microsoft should have a 20 year monopoly on each file format they invent? Or is the "actually develop" justification limited to CSIRO?
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