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- Vonage-Verizon patent infringement hearing today: but no decision yet
- Colleague Anne Broache reports that a federal appeals court weighing the patent case that Verizon filed against Vonage heard arguments earlier today but did not immediately reach a decision.Anne thinks that one hint about what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may be thinking...
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, Regulatory, News
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Vonage: we want a do-over in Verizon patent infringement trial
- Vonage has asked the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to shelve its Verizon patent infringement judgement and send the case back to a lower court for retrial.The impetus: a unanimous opinion released by the Supreme Court on Monday, seen by some as a rework of Patent infringement law....
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, patents, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Could this 3Com patent be a solution to Vonage's infringement woes?
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson writes that Ken Rutkowski, with whom he co-hosts the World Technology RoundUp has just forwarded him an email from an engineer who is listed as one of the three inventors of a 3Com patent that covers much if not most of the same ground one...
- Tags: Vonage, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- A quick and easy guide to the Verizon patents in the Vonage case
- Earlier this week I posted a detailed synopsis of the three Verizon patents at the heart of the infringement dispute with Vonage. You can find those posts here, here, and here.Network Worlds Denise Pappalardo now offers a cogent summary of just what exactly the disputed Verizon patents at the heart...
- Tags: General, Vonage, Verizon VoiceWing
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Jury to Vonage: pay Verizon $58 million. What do you think?
- A Federal jury today ordered Vonage to pay Verizon $58 million for patent infringement. The jury found that Vonage had infringed on three of the five patents Verizon accused its rival of doing.The payment, which will be appealed, is exactly one-thirds that of the $197 million Verizon had requested. The...
- Tags: Verizon VoiceWing, News, Vonage, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
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- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...
- Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., patent, inventor
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Vonage to FCC: get the telcos off our back
- Vonage to FCC: get the telcos off our backYes, by all means...Vonage has long been the whipping boy of the telephone companies and those who aren't trying to sue them over some random patent (awash in our horribly flawed and designed for malicious "patent trolls" patent system), are trying to...
- Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby Feds in 2007
- The Associated Press reports that Vonage spent nearly $1.4 million to lobby the federal government in 2007. Vonage's key lobbying activities were related to telecommunications competition and consumer issues. That's according...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Vonage's immediate future: debt re-fi, more patent trolls
- Our own Larry Dignan has been looking at Vonage's year-end financial report, and points out Vonage's debt issues. Noting Vonage's patent infringement settlement payments for more than $200 million for the year, Larry notes that: To wit: Vonage had $190 million in cash, marketable securities and...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Vonage to deliver "a mobile service": here's what I think it might be
- Vonage to deliver "a mobile service": here's what I think it might beWhy this wouldn't work...So now - when you travel, on top of taking your laptop and cell phone you'll carry a vonage wifi phone... No thanks.... I don't need another device to tote around....Maybe an iSkoot...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, mobile, Vonage Holdings Corp., iSkoot, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Did you know: Vonage got booted by Better Business Bureau last year? Here's their rap sheet
- Did you know: Vonage got booted by Better Business Bureau last year? Here's their rap sheetWho cares.The BBB is a racket designed to extort money from businesses. They don't give a crap about consumers or businesses. The only thing the BBB is out for is the BBB.RE: Did you know:...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Blogging, Vonage Holdings Corp., Better Business Bureau, rap sheet
- Discussion threads 2008-01-06
- Vonage infringement settlements could unleash patent trolls
- Â Over the now-and admit it, so totally over Holiday weekend, Vonage settled patent disputes with AT&T and then Nortel. The agreement with AT&T was announced on December 21. Not much details, except to report that the arrangements were "definitive." Then on December 31, Vonage and Nortel...
- Tags: Patent, Nortel Networks Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?
- Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?Vonage - A dead man walkinghttp://www.magicjack.com/site/index.htmlSwitch now. The only hassle to me is it requires Windows. I don't use Windows normally and I had to go into the closet to test it on my home automation system...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vonage Holdings Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?
- Vonage has settled another patent dispute this time with Nortel, Reuters is reporting. The case involved a counter-claim filed by Nortel against Digital Packet Licensing, a company Vonage acquired two years later in 2006. The dispute centered on patents behind emergency and information call numbers in addition...
- Tags: Phone, Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- PC World gets it wrong: as Vonage goes, so not necessarily goes VoIP
- It disappoints, but does not amaze me, how journalists on deadline sometimes cite rough patches being experienced by Vonage or Skype and then make a giant leap to conclude that VoIP is hosed. Take for instance the almost-always-clued-in Dan Tynan of PC World. ...
- Tags: Networking, PC World, Russell Shaw, Telecommunications, Telephony, VOIP, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- News to know: Working with Android; XP activation; Google Talk woe; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: Getting started with Android Ed Bott: Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3 Mary Jo Foley: There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suite. Microsoft releases CRM 4.0 to manufacturing just under the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Printers, Business Intelligence, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Nortel sues Vonage for patent infringement
- Telecommunications manufacturer Nortel has just filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, accuses Vonage of infringing on 12 Nortel patents related to telephone data management solutions. Vonage is on record as having contested three...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Data Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?
- Klausner Technologies, a company founded by Judah Klausner who invented the PDA, is suing Apple, AT&T over iPhone's visual voicemail patents. For good measure Klausner is suing Comcast, Cablevision and eBay's Skype. Sound familiar? It should Klausner almost sounds like NTP, which sued Research...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PDA, Cablevision Systems Corp., Patent, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., eBay Inc., NTP, Klausner Technologies, PDAs, Intellectual Property, Handhelds, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Court rejects Vonage patent case appeal
- Court rejects Vonage patent case appealThey rolled the dice one too many times I guess.They should have forgot the appeal and settled for the $80 million figure.Good Idea, bad justice systemFigures, a company that has a technology that works and is easily usable and reliable and the court cans it....
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., patent case
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Vonage loses in court, must pay Verizon $37.5 million more than it would have
- Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said it has denied Vonage's appeal to rehear its patent infringement dispute with Verizon. As you see from the grab off the Court's rulings page: (I'd link but link changes daily) the...
- Tags: Stock, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
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