Volume IX

Issue : 18: May 19, 2011

• Service of Claim by Email Not Permitted by Ontario Superior Court
• Ontario Superior Court Rules on Ways to Recover Domain Names
• Senate Bill Introduced to Tackle Online Piracy
• Federal Lawsuit Raises Questions Regarding Invasive Uses of Technology
• Web Vendor Threatens Customers to Promote Business
• Microsoft and Others Fight Apple's EU 'App Store' Trademark
• Disney's Playdom Social-Gaming Service Fined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• HP, Apple, and Other Tech Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents
• Google, Apple and Adobe Accused of Fixing Hiring and Pay

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HP, Apple, and Other Tech Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents

Linex Technologies, a Florida company that licenses wireless technologies, has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) against several technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Apple, accusing them of violating patents it owns with respect to wireless communications.  Linex has asked the ITC to ban the import of offending products, which includes Hewlett-Packard’s Pavilian and Envy laptops, and Apple’s MacBook, MacBook Air, and Macbook Pro.

In addition to the complaint with the ITC, Linex also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Delaware against the same companies.  The suit seeks monetary damages for the violation of its patents.

The patents in question concern “space diversity and coding, spread-spectrum antenna and method”, which uses multiple transmitter antennas and multiple receiving antennas to improve a signal’s reliability, and “multiple-input multiple-output spread spectrum system and method”, which uses multiple antennas to maximize a wireless signal indoors.

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