{"id":522130,"date":"2010-04-09T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100408\/1153588940.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:39:00","slug":"now-wi-lan-sues-everyone-over-bluetooth-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522130","title":{"rendered":"Now Wi-Lan Sues Everyone Over Bluetooth Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Wi-Lan?  The failed Canadian company reinvented itself as a patent nuisance, claiming that WiFi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20040623\/232202.shtml\">violated its patents<\/a>, leading to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20071101\/185058.shtml\">suing a bunch of companies<\/a> all at once.  That strategy seems to be working, so now its claiming that Bluetooth also violates Wi-Lan patents and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6373QG20100408?type=technologyNews&#038;feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=technologyNews&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20reuters%2FtechnologyNews%20%28News%20%2F%20US%20%2F%20Technology%29\" >has sued another 19 companies for infringement<\/a>.  The list includes Apple, Dell, Intel, HP and others.  And, of course, the lawsuit was filed in East Texas &#8212; and Wi-Lan is claiming willful infringement, demanding treble damages.  Same story, different day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100408\/1153588940.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100408\/1153588940.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100408\/1153588940&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4a925e530cf238cee8f028b013b60cf2&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4a925e530cf238cee8f028b013b60cf2&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=rKeCI4mrd5U:3c5z_zxzx_o:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=rKeCI4mrd5U:3c5z_zxzx_o:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=rKeCI4mrd5U:3c5z_zxzx_o:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/rKeCI4mrd5U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Wi-Lan? The failed Canadian company reinvented itself as a patent nuisance, claiming that WiFi violated its patents, leading to it suing a bunch of companies all at once. That strategy seems to be working, so now its claiming that Bluetooth also violates Wi-Lan patents and has sued another 19 companies for infringement. The list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}