Australia to seek WiFi fortune, in lawsuits
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Implosion incoming. The WiFi industry may be deeply shaken, due to another patent claim over the technology. The Australian tech research agency CSIRO has won a landmark US legal battle against Buffalo Technology, reports the Age. And Buffalo Technology could be sentenced to pay royalties from every producer of wireless local area network (WLAN) products worldwide. The patent, granted to CSIRO in 1996, encompasses elements of the 802.11a/g wireless technology that is now an industry standard.
It looks like another SCO campaign of lawsuits. When the open source software company was/has been hunting down big corporations as IBM, Sun or HP.
CSIRO won’t stop it here. The agency will take on Intel and Dell in one case and Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Netgear in the other. And unlike the SCO case, CSIRO, as a foreign government agency, has a silver bullet shield: Lawsuit immunity. (via WNN)
Nov 17, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] CSIRO center of technology has made quite a buzz after suing and winning against Buffalo Technology on its use of WiFi standards. Asides the lawsuits, the innovation, and the Australian government agency recently made this break-through: A 6 gigabits wireless connection, 100 times faster than current 802.11g WiFi standards. […]