13 January 2007
Intellectual property | Patents | Bluetooth
Bluetooth and the vampire?
Charles Goldfinger
On 21 December 2006 the Washington Research Foundation
(WRF), which manages the intellectual property of Washington State’s
public universities, filed a lawsuit against three large electronic
companies, which supply mobile handsets, Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic
alleging infringement of four patents concerning Bluetooth technology.
On the face of it, such a lawsuit is not surprising: after all,
Bluetooth is part of the mobile communications domain – and mobile
communications has become the hot IP battlefield. On a second look, however, the case appears quite intriguing for at least two reasons:
- Bluetooth is generally thought of as a European technology,
developed in the late 1990s, by a group of Scandinavian...
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