Wi-LAN Inc. has signed up three more companies for its V-chip parental control technology, and three customers have taken licences for its wireless patents.
The Ottawa-based company said Hong Kong's Perpetual Action Group and Sun Cupid Ltd., and Phoebe Micro Inc. of Fremont, Calif. had signed V-chip patent licence agreements providing for the payment of running royalties for the life of the patent.
Wi-LAN now has 93 companies with licence agreements for the technology.
As well, the company said it has signed multi-year running royalty licence agreements for Wi-Fi-related technologies with Sunnyvale-based portable navigation device vendor Dash Navigation Inc. and with notebook vendor Electrovaya Inc., of Mississauga.
The company noted that Electrovaya is the seventh notebook vendor to take a licence to Wi-LAN's portfolio of Wi-Fi-patents.
Wi-LAN also said another unnamed customer had inked a multi-year running royalty licence agreement relating to code division multiple access (CDMA) technologies, which, along with the two other deals mentioned, brings the number of companies under Wi-LAN's wireless licences to 30.
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