<P> In 1999, the Wi - Fi Alliance formed as a trade association to hold the Wi - Fi trademark under which most products are sold . </P> <P> Wi - Fi uses a large number of patents held by many different organizations . In April 2009, 14 technology companies agreed to pay CSIRO $1 billion for infringements on CSIRO patents . This led to Australia labeling Wi - Fi as an Australian invention, though this has been the subject of some controversy . CSIRO won a further $220 million settlement for Wi - Fi patent - infringements in 2012 with global firms in the United States required to pay the CSIRO licensing rights estimated to be worth an additional $1 billion in royalties . In 2016, the wireless local area network Test Bed was chosen as Australia's contribution to the exhibition A History of the World in 100 Objects held in the National Museum of Australia . </P> <P> The name Wi - Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand - consulting firm Interbrand . The Wi - Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than' IEEE 802.11 b Direct Sequence' ." Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi - Fi Alliance who presided over the selection of the name "Wi - Fi", has stated that Interbrand invented Wi - Fi as a pun upon the word hi - fi . </P> <P> Interbrand also created the Wi - Fi logo . The yin - yang Wi - Fi logo indicates the certification of a product for interoperability . </P>

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