Volume IV

Issue : 11: June 1, 2006

• Global Sting Operation Targets Major Internet Fraud Schemes
• U.S. Veterans Personal Information Compromised After Home Burglary
• The Co operators Group Wins Domain Name Dispute Over "Cooperator.ca"
• WestJets $15.5 Million Apology to Air Canada
• Wi LAN Files Patent Suit Against D Link
• Complainant Obtains Domain Name Transfer Based on Parent Companys Mark
• Bank Makes Incorrect Assumptions About DNS Listings
• Amazons "One Click" Patent Back Before U.S. Patent Office
• Record Industry Sues XM Satellite Over iPod like Device

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Wi LAN Files Patent Suit Against D Link

Wi-LAN Technologies Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wi-LAN Inc., has filed and served a lawsuit against D-Link Canada Inc. in the Federal Court of Canada for infringement of Wi-LAN's Canadian patent 2,064,975 for WODFM (Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Multiplexing). Also named in the suit is D-Link's US subsidiary D-Link Systems Inc. Wi-LAN claims "all devices incorporating the IEEE802.11a/g standards utilize Wi-LAN's WOFDM patents."

This suit follows a corporate update released May 15, 2006, where Wi-LAN announced it is entering the final stage of becoming a pure IP litigation company and reducing its employee count to seven. The following day, Wi-LAN also announced the hiring of James (Jim) Skippen, formerly head of patent licensing for MOSAID Technologies, as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 20, 2006.

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