U.S. Firms Take on Australia's CSIRO Over Patents 426
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."
Re:Wow.... (Score:3, Funny)
Quite right, like Al Gore and the Internet.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
It has been discovered that the CSIRO technology could potentially assist enemies of the free world.
The first stage of the attack, dubbed operation "Patent Freedom", could commence as soon as next week.
Re:Wow.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Turnabout is fair play... (Score:3, Funny)
Who said easy target?
Re:Wow.... (Score:5, Funny)
Shh, don't let them know (Score:3, Funny)
Bush declares 'war on technologists' (Score:4, Funny)
Dick Cheney, while stroking his missile launch codes briefcase, refused to comment. Rumsfeld barked like a dog.
Re:Wow.... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh sure, on paper.
But in the real world, the French version shipped 16 years late, was full of bugs, and support had to be outsorced to Corsica.
A dozen platform changes later, the French are running Freedom 5.0 and it still doesn't work properly.
Meanwhile, America gets by on Freedom 1.0.27. Admittedly, the last patch took two hundred years to roll out...
European culture (Score:3, Funny)
And the way US citiziens dress was previously based in the European culture. Hell, they whole US culture is based in the European culture - that's from where most of american people comes, remember?
I listen to flamenco and classic music and that is not based in american culture by the way.