Australians defended the rights to Wi-Fi in an American court

Australian scientists won a patent dispute about the use of wireless technologies that underwent in the United States that underlie Wi-Fi and get several hundred million dollars as a result, reports Securitylab . So far, a decision has not been made regarding further trials, but this is quite possible.

According to representatives of the Association of Scientific and Applied Studies of the Commerce Countries (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Csiro), signed agreements on the wireless local network will bring more than 220 million Australian dollars (about 229 million US dollars).

Wi-Fi was invented by the scientists of the CSIRO organization in 1990, and now this technology is used in billions of computers, smartphones and other devices around the world, and the Australians regret that they do not have patents operating around the world.

“We could not even suggest that Wi -Fi would develop as crazy pace as it happens now. Therefore, we do not have patents in Latin America, Russia, China and India. Of course, now we are very regretted about this,” the head of the working group of the KSIRO information group of CSIRO POLOL, the head of the Australian radio group.

Since 2005, according to Reuters, CSIRO has initiated a number of lawsuits against companies for the illegal use of Wi-Fi technology. In 2009, as a result of litigation with 14 companies, CSIRO managed to get 205 million Australian dollars (212 million in American currency).

Later, the agency filed claims against another 23 companies, including Lenovo, Acer, Sony and At & T, with which licensed agreements were signed as a result.

According to representatives of the agency, in 2013, by the time of the expiration of the patent, more than five billion electronic devices that contain CSIRO technologies will be sold around the world.