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royalties  updated 03:35 pm EDT, Thu March 17, 2011  Mosaid sues
Dell, RIM, many over Wi-Fi patents  Mosaid late Wednesday sued
as many technology firms as possible in hopes of profiting off
the success of Wi-Fi. The Ottawa-based company's complaint
targeted major device makers such as ASUS, Canon, Dell, Intel,
and RIM as well as those building chipsets, such as Atheros and
Marvell, for allegedly infringing six patents covering Wi-Fi,
including network finding and the orthogonal multiplexing used
for the faster speeds in the newer 802.11n spec. CEO John
Lindgren insisted that "all" devices using Wi-Fi were dependent
on the patents and had to pay royalties.  The lawsuit asks all
the companies to pay damages. It would further ban them from
selling virtually any of the chipsets, notebooks, and phones
they make or else would require a mandatory royalty from them to
keep using what's allegedly Mosaid's technology.  Unlike its
fellow litigious Ottawa