Verizon, Vonage Patent suite, chimes trouble for VoIP
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In U.S. District Court in Virginia, Verizon will face off against Vonage in a patent infringement case by Verizon that could lead to ripple effects in the VoIP IP Telephony market.
The lawsuit charges Vonage with violation of seven Verizon patents, all related to Vonage’s VoIP based commercial service. If Verizon wins, Vonage could be forced to pay royalties or find workaround technologies.
The lawsuit charges that Vonage infringed patents related to completing calls between VoIP users and the PSTN or the public telephony network, authenticating VoIP callers, validating VoIP callers’ accounts, monitoring the usage of VoIP callers, protecting against fraud, providing enhanced features, and using Wi-Fi. I have not seen all the patents but might be a task for PUBPAT look into.
All the patents involve technologies at the intersection of the public network and VoIP applications, where all digital communications turns in to analog.
In July 2006, Vonage said it had acquired three VoIP-related patents from Digital Packet Licensing that address compression techniques related to the public network.
The patents were part of Vonage’s overall plan to find technologies that it could employ to work around Verizon’s contested patents.
But the Holmdel, New Jersey-based company continues to maintain that Verizon’s lawsuit is an attempt to snuff out VoIP companies that have been taking away its customers.
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