January 19, 2007
University Foundation Files Patent Suit
All those cellphone users who seem to be talking to themselves as they walk on the street could help create a windfall for the University of Washington.
A foundation that manages patents for the university says that Bluetooth, the technology used in those cellphones and receivers, as well as in other wireless electronic devices, infringes patents on radio-frequency technology invented by one of its electrical-engineering students in the mid-1990s.
The Washington Research
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