The Open Patent Alliance (OPA), an industry group dedicated to offering intellectual property rights (IPR) solutions that support the development and widespread adoption of WiMAX around the globe, announced its latest membership additions: Beceem Communications, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans Communications and UQ Communications. Existing backers of OPA include Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Cisco, Clearwire, Huawei Technologies, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics. http://www.openpatentalliance.com