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Ultra-Wide Band doesn't need to be wireless - Court decision

Ultra-Wide Band normally means wireless. But it can travel on any media, and coax cable is comms spectrum like any other, when it comes to UWB; and Pulse~Link has the patents covering it.

Today, a dispute between Pulse~Link and Tzero Technologies has completed its progress through the courts, and Pulse~Link has reported that "Under the Consent Judgment on file with the United States District Court, Southern District of California, Pulse~LINK patents 6,895,034 and 7,099,368 have been stipulated as valid and enforceable in the UWB-Over-Coax patent infringement case filed against Tzero Technologies."

The judgment was announced today as part of a settlement agreement between Ultra Wideband (UWB) semiconductor company, Pulse~LINK, Inc., and Tzero Technologies.

Federal litigation against Tzero alleged that, by making, using and selling UWB-Over-Coax solutions, Tzero was violating Pulse~LINK patents which are fundamental to UWB communications over wired media such as coaxial cable, power line and phone wires. In the settlement, Tzero affirmed it has suspended development of products that were the subject of the legal action, and agreed that before re-introducing any such product it shall first obtain a licence from Pulse~LINK.

Pulse~LINK, in turn, has agreed to grant Tzero a fair and commercially reasonable licence in the event Tzero requests such a licence in the future.