Description
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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The MVDDS dispute
refers to several legal disputes and political controversies that
surrounded Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval of MVDDS
terrestrial wireless broadband technology. The controversy arose over
the lobbying efforts of Northpoint Technology, a developer of MVDDS, to
receive approval and licensing for the technology. The dispute later
transformed into several court cases against the FCC and satellite
television providers, as well as a patent infringement case against MDS
America and MDS International. As a result of the dispute, Northpoint
lost the patents. The case revolved around the question of how easily
the technology described in Northpoint’s patents-specifically, the
directional antenna-could be implemented. The defendants argued that the
patent did not fully disclose how the antenna would avoid receiving
undesired signals, and that besides the antenna’s physical direction,
many additional parameters must be fine-tuned.
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