Man, I really wish Apple would develop their own technology rather than steal other company’s intellectual property. [/sarcasm}

Ummmm Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t connecting laptops, and other small devices to each other the original INTENT of creating the Bluetooth standard to begin with?

If it is an “open”, or dedicated standard, then how can someone patent it?

Seems to me like creating the form factor of a plane, then patenting the flying of said plane.

*sigh* One more patent troll pokes its head out from under the bridge. Let’s hope Bilbo can keep it occupied till dawn…

From a snowy Fairbanks

*sigh* One more patent troll pokes its head out from under the bridge. Let’s hope Bilbo can keep it occupied till dawn…

+1 AKjohn. I kinda lose it when I read about these “patent trolls.” Maybe I will patent a device that is connected with string between two cans that can pass information back and forth. Hmmm, sounds like ethernet, or maybe a, could be a, could be anything. Gosh, time to sue. Ridiculous sounding I know but so are some of these lawsuits.

Rant over, thanks for listening.

You mean like H.264 which is part of the HTML5 standard? Everyone that implements H.264 has to pay Apple a license fee.

Daemon,

Right. Exactly, but wasn’t there a Bluetooth “Committee” or “group” to take care of that licensing?

I know for a fact it was not “independently” developed by this company.

Thanks for the clarification.

Bluetooth’ is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security. Invented by telecoms vendor Ericsson in 1994.