Wi-LAN Grants Licenses to Six Additional Companies

OTTAWA - Wi-LAN Inc., a leading technology innovation and licensing company, announced in a press release that it has licensed three more companies to its V-chip technology, bringing the number of companies under license to 93.

The company has signed V-chip patent license agreements with Perpetual Action Group, Sun Cupid Ltd. and Phoebe Micro Inc. These agreements each provide for the payment of running royalties for the life of the patent.

The company also announced that it has signed multi-year running royalty license agreements for Wi-Fi-related technologies with portable navigation device vendor Dash Navigation Inc. and notebook vendor Electrovaya Inc. Electrovaya represents the seventh notebook vendor to take a license to Wi-LAN’s portfolio of essential patents covering Wi-Fi technologies. The company also signed a multi-year running royalty license agreement relating to CDMA technologies with a company whose identity cannot be disclosed. These agreements bring the number of companies under license to Wi-LAN’s wireless technologies to 30.

In the first 34 weeks of its fiscal year 2008, Wi-LAN has signed license agreements with 50 companies. Licensing discussions continue with many companies of all sizes and Wi-LAN expects to sign additional agreements in the near future.

Wi-LAN’s portfolio of patented inventions applies to a wide range of electronics and communications products. Some of the fundamental technologies covered by Wi-LAN’s patents include: CDMA, DOCSIS, DSL, GSM/EDGE, V chip, Wi-Fi and WiMAX. Wi-LAN has a large and growing portfolio of more than 300 issued or pending patents. Wi-LAN has licensed its Intellectual Property to over 120 companies.