Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The largest
IT company in the world, Hewlett-Packard, has been humbled by
Australia's national science agency CSIRO and agreed to settle for an
undisclosed sum over a long running Wi-Fi patent infringement suit. The
win against the Silicon Valley colossus has given CSIRO ammunition to
continue pursuing 13 other technology giants for millions of dollars in
licensing fees.
CSIRO holds patents on the 802.11a and 802.11g
Wi-Fi standards, which have been used extensively in routers, wireless
networking cards and other Wi-Fi networking products for the past
decade.
The list of names that have sold products based on the CSIRO held
patents reads like a who's who in consumer wireless technology: Intel,
Netgear, Belkin, D-Link, Microsoft, Dell, Nintendo, Toshiba, and Asus,
among others.
All of those companies are much bigger than CSIRO but the Australian
research agency, which generates income by developing technology and
licensing it to industry, is still substantial with 50 offices and 6500
highly qualified science and technology researchers on staff.
The successful four year defence of its patents against HP
infringements means that the CSIRO now has a good chance of defeating
the other technology giants and winning substantial settlements worth
millions in licensing fees.
The use of Wi-Fi over the past ten years has become pervasive with tens
of millions of portable computers and increasingly smaller devices such
as mobile handsets tapping into hotspots around the world each day.
The technology that makes this happen is based largely on patents first granted to CSIRO in 1996.
The win by CSIRO against HP is also likely to do much to restore faith
in the intellectual property rights protection system that patents are
meant to uphold. In recent years, technology giants with deep pockets
have often succeeded in thwarting the efforts of genuine patent holders
to get just compensation for the use of their IP.
David Bass
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