CSR, a maker of microchips for mobile phones, agreed to pay $15 million to end a lawsuit brought by the Seattle-based Washington Research Foundation (WRF) over patents covering Bluetooth wireless-communication chips. The nonprofit foundation, a licensing arm of the University of Washington, sued CSR customers Matsushita Electric Industrial, Samsung and Nokia over Bluetooth technology in Seattle federal court in December. CSR, based in Cambridge, England, entered the case in January and countersued. The foundation added Apple, Dell and Sony as defendants March 15, along with Logitech International, Motorola, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Toshiba and Plantronics.

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