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He has declared them to be in violation of patent
This means that they are making money on a product that they did not pay for. This is a violation and it can be shut down. They are not impeding development because this company is using a technology not improving it. If the outcome of this is that they develop their own technology, then the process did work.

Now, i would love to know exactly what patents they are disputing. I thought most of voip was open source. From what the articles have said.. it appears that the patents relate to the bridging of POTS and VoIP. As they have said, there are commerically available devices that do this.. and if vonage is using them, then it would be up to the devices manufacturer to pay for patents not vonage. I always thought vonage used linux systems to do their switching.

Here is another question related to their patents.. what about open source linux stuff that does exactly what the patents cover?
Posted by: Been_Done_Before   Posted on: 04/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Putting a halt to commerce is not an answer to infringement  Jack Recht | 04/06/07
He has declared them to be in violation of patent  Been_Done_Before | 04/06/07
"Putting a halt to commerce is not an answer to infringement "...however...  IT_Guy_z | 04/06/07
Assumptions  kldimond | 04/06/07
Re: ...however...  none none | 04/07/07
What about the customers?  John Zern | 04/06/07
Putting people in prison bad for economy  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/07/07
All patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 04/06/07
My Cable Provider Is Bringing Phone Service Out Where I Live  itanalyst | 04/07/07
Verizon v. Vonage  rtwigg@... | 04/09/07
Verizon needs to do better  llwbtdt@... | 04/11/07

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