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January 28, 2004

More on Nomadix

By Nancy Gohring

This poorly-written piece offers up some more comments from Nomadix on its redirect patent: While Joel Short, Nomadix’s chief technology officer, says here that the company isn’t focused on suing companies for patent infringement, he also repeatedly says that Nomadix will “encourage” companies to license its technology rather than infringe.

I continue to make calls to operators and vendors that could be affected by this patent and generally find companies reluctant to talk about the issue. Many of them say that they believe many companies had redirection before Nomadix filed for the patent and as such the patent shouldn’t be enforceable; this is called “prior art.”

But I suspect that few want to actually be the company that challenges the patent. They’re likely waiting to see if Nomadix goes after them. My impression, based on the fact that I continue to feel like I’m informing companies of the patent, is that Nomadix hasn’t yet approached vendors or operators that it feels are infringing on the patent.

There are some companies supportive of Nomadix, however. STSN licenses the Nomadix redirection technology and believes others should too. “The Wi-Fi industry will come to a grinding halt if we don’t support the private ownership of IP [intellectual property],” said David Garrison, STSN’s CEO said in an exclusive interview today. “So, on one hand, we can say we want this industry to develop and have new technologies, but companies like ours aren’t going to invest in the new technology and research if we can’t get protection around IP.”

Posted by nancyg at January 28, 2004 10:19 AM

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