US tech companies bid to annul wireless patent
Some of the world’s biggest technology companies have joined together defeat a key patent claimed by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The companies include Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple and Netgear.
At issue is a patent issued in the US to CSIRO in 1996 that, the organisation claims, increases the speed of a wireless network up to five times.
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