And that?s only counting royalty payments made to date
According to ABC Science, the legal action in the United States between the CSIRO ? the patent holders for 802.11 standard ? and several prominent global computing giants came to an end in April, with confidential settlements occurring in favour of the CSIRO. Fast-forward to more recent times and The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the CSIRO has been paid a total of $200 million to date, and that figure is only expected to increase.
Earlier in the year the CSIRO announced that it had reached a confidential settlement with Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard, but they were also seeking royalty payments from such companies as Microsoft, Asus, D-Link, Dell, Nintendo, Intel and Toshiba, to name a few. With such notable companies targeted, and the CSIRO claiming that the technology is used in some 800 million devices around the world, the $200 million figure may prove to be just a drop in the royalty payment ocean.
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