Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle

First time accepted submitter Kangburra writes "Australian government science body CSIRO said Sunday it had won a multi-million-dollar legal settlement in the United States to license its patented technology that underpins the WiFi platform worldwide. Scientists from the agency invented the wireless local area network (WLAN) technology that is the basis of the WiFi signal employed by computers, smartphones and other Internet-ready devices around the world."

Comments

okay they won

[heptapod]

What's next? Crocodile Dundee doing a commercial for CSIRO saying "That's not a wireless router. THAT'S a wireless router."

Re:Break Out The Australian Sparkling White Wine

[haruchai]

Pffft. Since it's been clearly established that government is incapable of doing anything right, there's no way this is legitimate work by CSIRO. They must have stolen the IP from Hedy Lamarr and is using it to browbeat good old American job creators into given up their hard-earned wealth. Bloody Aussie socialists.

Re:Way to promote cultural stereotypes

[meerling]

Yeah, but America was colonized by rabble rousers, and malcontents while Australias colonists were hand picked by the finest British Judges.

(An Australian exchange student told me that joke years ago. If any Australians are put out by that joke, they should bloody well stop telling it.)

Re:Way to promote cultural stereotypes

[rohan972]

I like to ask Brits that come over here: "So what are you in for?"