At 5/11/2011 08:16 PM, Eric Rogers wrote: >http://news.priorsmart.com/innovatio-ip-ventures-v-abp-l3Mf/ > >Evidently Meijer, Panera, and several others have...
I haven't read these, but they look like your usual garbage patents. They take something that people have been doing for years, write up a patent, and it gets awarded because there is no prior patent on it. I wonder if any of the stuff I did with RSPF in 1986-1989, or what the other ham packet radio people did in that era, could be used as prior art against some of these patents. >Eric > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Bruce Robertson >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 4:17 PM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: [WISPA] Wifi patents? > >Has anyone run into any intellectual property companies claiming patent >infringement for use of 802.11 in "Business Operations" or providing >"User-level Hotspot Services to the Public"? One of our customers just >got a letter from an attorney representing Innovatio IP Ventures, >offering to settle up now for "a license with highly favorable terms." > >Leaving aside such terms as "slimeballs" and "preying on society"... >Since this means pretty much anyone who uses Ubiquiti, and could >probably be extended to apply to Canopy even though they aren't using >802.11, I was wondering if anyone else had run into this. My customer >is much higher profile than I am, and so is a better target, but I >figure it's only a matter of time. > >It also means pretty much any company in the entire world, so I figure >they have their work cut out for them. > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
