who owns wimax core patents?28 April 2006
Qualcomm mounts patent attack on WiMax
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
"....Alvarion, one of the largest broadband wireless vendors in the market, has not been contacted by Qualcomm regarding its WiMax products, said Rudy Leser, vice president of strategy and marketing for Alvarion. He said Alvarion has spoken with other industry leaders including Intel and they believe that Qualcomm's patents aren't relevant to the WiMax standards.
He said that Qualcomm may be looking to create a technology, reliant on its patents, that competes with WiMax, much like Qualcomm did when it developed CDMA to compete with GSM.
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WiMax is a standard developed over the past few years that can be used to deliver broadband Internet access wirelessly and has been heavily backed by Intel. The WiMax Forum, an industry group backing the technology, has asked members to disclose any relevant patents they have in an effort to control the patent licensing cost for
vendors making WiMax equipment. Qualcomm is not a member of the WiMax Forum. ..."
Wimax Forum intends to have its own royalty payment policy?