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CSIRO Taxes Innovators To Fund Innovators?
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| A few years back, the Australian tech research
| agency CSIRO was awarded a patent with several
| claims over basic concepts used in WiFi. While
| we have tremendous problems with the idea of
| any government agency patenting anything,
| CSIRO wielded this patent and aggressively
| fought against a bunch of large tech
| companies, and it recently convinced them to
| pay a $200 million settlement. At some point,
| tech firms realize it's often just cheaper to
| pay up than to keep fighting a bogus patent
| claim.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091021/1438486625.shtml
Apple, others hit with lawsuit over '90s Ethernet patents
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| A Texas company has targeted Apple and a
| number of other technology companies in a
| new lawsuit regarding a handful of computer
| networking patents issued in the 1990s.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/19/apple_others_hit_with_lawsuit_over_90s_ethernet_patents.html
Recent:
CSIRO's Wi-Fi patent victory earns $200m and counting
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| A patent battle between Australia's CSIRO and 14
| of the world's largest technology companies has
| today been revealed to have already gained the
| research organisation $200 million from out of
| court settlements.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/158194,csiros-wi-fi-patent-victory-earns-200m-and-counting.aspx
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