CSIRO wins landmark wi-fi settlement - ABC News
The CSIRO has won what could be a landmark settlement from Hewlett Packard over the use of patented wireless technology.
Since the Australian science agency received a patent for its IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g Wi-Fi products in January 1996, the technology has been adopted as an industry standard by most notebooks and desktop computers around the world.
If CSIRO is successful in being granted royalty rights for the technology, billions of dollars could be headed its way because of the widespread use of the wireless standard.
Go CSIRO! You invent it, you should get paid for it. Now hopefully you’ll have more money to spend on more resources, to invent more stuff we can’t live without.
