BlueTooth

Specific Patents 9 January 2007 0 Comments

Here is the bluetooth patents family that assertedly include claims directed to various cellphone manufacturer’s implementation of bluetooth.

Publication
Pub. Date
Filed
Title
WO9811672A1 1998-03-19 1997-09-12  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US20060019624A1 2006-01-26 2005-06-15  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US20040038655A1 2004-02-26 2003-08-25  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US20020090924A1 2002-07-11 2001-10-27  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US7116963 2006-10-03 2003-08-25 Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US6631256 2003-10-07 2001-10-27  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US6427068B1 2002-07-30

US6427068 2002-07-30 1999-05-24?  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
US5937341 1999-08-10 1996-09-13?  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method
AU4350497A1 1998-04-02 1997-09-12?  Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method

From what I can tell, the argument is that the bluetooth standard, as a standard, does not assertedly infringe. The chips used by some bluetooth cellphone manufacturers (those made by Cambridge Silicon Radio) are not licensed and assertedly infringe. Washington Research Foundation did not sue CSR, asserting the patents against CSR’s customers (a famous tactic for gaining the attention of your real target).

While we can review the claims of the patents in the patent family, it is harder to gain access to some of the necessary details of the CSR chips so evaluation of the merits of these infringement claims is more difficult.

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