The patents are pooling….WiMax is coming

Link: Via Licensing Corporation, a subsidiary of Dolby Labs, is calling for WiMax patent holders to join a licensing pool “…with the ultimate goal of creating a portfolio of essential 802.16 technology that can be offered to companies at a single license price.”

WiMax is the next generation wireless technology that promises dramatically increased speed, and distance measured in miles and tens of miles. With WiMax, you might never be disconnected. Think of driving down the highway, jumping from WAP to WAP and always being connected.

WiMax is being implemented under the 802.16 IEEE standard, and Via is hoping to pool patents it believes are essential to the implementation of the standard. The company defines the prospective group of patents as those “…that have one or more claims that would necessarily be infringed by the implementation or use of the 802.16 standard.”

Interested patent holders have until November 19 to submit patents.

An announcement from Via is here.