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We take a lot of things for granted everyday. Gravity. The brakes on our cars. The antennas in our cellphones. Without any of those things, life just wouldn’t be the same. Actually, we could do without some gravity, but we damn sure need our cellphone antennas! Unfortunately for several major cellphone manufacturers, the antennas they’ve been packing into our mobile phones have apparently been treading on IP from a Spanish company called Fractus.
Samsung, LG, RIM, Pantech, Kyocera, Palm, HTC, Sharp, UTStarcom, and Sanyo are all being sued by Fractus for allegedly infringing on a total of 9 patents relating to multi-band cellular antenna technologies. Fractus hasn’t come forward with details on the patent infringements or exactly what kind of damages the company is looking to get. If they are found to have been violated, Fractus stands to make a good load of money with their multi-band antenna patents.
[Fractus via: PhoneScoop]
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
