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| industry = Patent monetization | foundation = 1992 | founder = Hatim Zaghloul Michel Fattouche | location_city = Ottawa | location_country = Canada | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = Michael B. Vladescu, COO Shaun McEwan, CFO | products = Bluetooth, LTE, WiMAX, WiFi, CDMA, DOCSIS | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | num_employees = | divisions = | subsid = Gladios IP Cygnus Broadband | homepage = }} WiLAN (trading as Wi-LAN Inc.) is a technology development and intellectual property licensing company with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. WiLAN licenses patent portfolios that it owns and also partner with owners of patent portfolios through its subsidiary, Gladios IP. According to the New York Times, "As of December 31, 2011, WiLAN had a portfolio of approximately 3,000 patents, including issued and pending patents and foreign equivalents." WiLAN, through its subsidiary, Cygnus Broadband, conducts ongoing research and development into advanced wireless communication systems.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Board - Davide Gell: Cygnus Braodband, CTO )〕 Wi-LAN Inc. is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wi-LAN Inc. (WIN) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FlashQuotes )〕 ==History== In 1992,Hatim Zaghloul and Michel Fattouche co-founded WiLAN〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company - Overview )〕 after they together developed the Wideband Orthogonal Division Multiplexing (WOFDM),〔United States Patent Document patent number 5,282,222〕 and Multi-code Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum (MCDSSS).〔United States Patent number 5,555,269 and the reissued patent number 38,802〕 Through WiLAN's efforts, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allowed OFDM technology over the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM band for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards. MC-DSSS (MultiCode-Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum) is central to high speed CDMA applications, the main technology currently used by many cellphone networks. In November 1999, WiLAN and Philips invited companies to attend a meeting to form an alliance to promote the OFDM technology and its applications. Fifty five companies attended the meeting and formed the OFDM Forum in March 2000. WiLAN was also a founding member of the WiMAX Forum together with Ensemble, CossSpan, Harris, and Nokia. In 2006, WiLAN focused its business on technology development and patent licensing.〔 WiLAN acquired Tri-Vision a company that developed a key ingredient in the V-Chip technology. WiLAN has since acquired hundreds of patents. It has licensed some of its technologies to technology giants such as Nokia, LG Electronics, Samsung, Fujitsu, RIM, Intel, Broadcom and Panasonic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WiLAN」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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