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Is BLE changing licensing policy?

Martin

Sorry for the non-tech. question but I just heard that BlueTooth group is significantly changing BLE licensing policy. Maybe it's some kind of FUD but it should be mandatory to pay a thousands of $ for BLE licensing fee (BLE patents) per one developed device model that is using a BLE module and going to the market. Even the definition of own attributes (UUIDS) would be charged. Is it true? If so, it's going to kill all start-up projects and projects not intended to sell high volumes of BLE enabled devices...

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    To add to what Ole has mentioned, other than the trademark license that allows the use of the various Bluetooth SIG trademarks, the agreement with the SIG (and following the terms of qualifying / licensing a product) also covers the use of the patents in the Bluetooth SIG patent pool, so if you don't qualify / pay the fee the product would not be covered by the patent agreement and you could be sued by the SIG or the member companies for violation of the patents in the pool. In the US they could also get importation stopped through the ITC.

    I'm no lawyer, so take all that with a grain of salt!

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    To add to what Ole has mentioned, other than the trademark license that allows the use of the various Bluetooth SIG trademarks, the agreement with the SIG (and following the terms of qualifying / licensing a product) also covers the use of the patents in the Bluetooth SIG patent pool, so if you don't qualify / pay the fee the product would not be covered by the patent agreement and you could be sued by the SIG or the member companies for violation of the patents in the pool. In the US they could also get importation stopped through the ITC.

    I'm no lawyer, so take all that with a grain of salt!

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