The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Specifically, the six patents that SiRF has been found to
infringe are: 6,417,801; 6,937,187; 6,606,346; 7,158,080; 6,704,651 and
6,651,000. These relate to extended ephemeris assistance, calculating
time in GPS receivers, enhancing sensitivity in assisted GPS systems,
and implementing hardware structures for parallel correlation.
In other words, the kind of technology we are
increasingly finding in our GPS enabled mobile phones as well as
portable Satnav devices and which help them find a signal, lock onto to
and keep it better than ever before.
"We are pleased that in two separate patent cases in front of two
different ITC judges Broadcom has prevailed at trial, with rulings that
support our position that SiRF infringes our intellectual property but
that we do not infringe theirs," said David
Rosmann,
Broadcom's Vice President, Intellectual Property Litigation.
Broadcom and Global Locate have also sued SiRF in the US District Court
with claims of infringement concerning four patents filed in January
2007, and four additional patents covering SiRF's multimedia processors
and GPS receivers filed in May 2008.
"Prior to the ITC trials earlier this year, we had been optimistic that
the companies would be able to cooperatively resolve their
differences," Rosmann said. "However, when that hope diminished, we
took additional actions to ensure protection of our IP rights. We
remain open to reaching a mutually acceptable resolution of these
disputes."
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