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...
In the somewhat self-delusional world that some Vonage execs, analysts and users seem to inhabit, yesterdays stay of an order allowing Vonage to keep signing up new customers until the patent infringement issues with Verizon are settled amounts to a win.I have a hard time viewing this attitude as reality....
Tomorrow, Vonage will ask an appeals court to extend a freeze of a lower court order that bars it from signing up new customers during the length of an appeals process of a ruling against Vonage in its patent infringement suit against Verizon.Last Tuesday, Vonage put out a statement...
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...
Roger Warin is the point person at the center of Vonages appeals in its patent infringement clash with Verizon.Chairman of Washington, D.C.-based Steptoe & Johnson, Warin,61, is the focus of todays Wall Street Journal Law Blog.Thats Warin at the top of this post. After a Friday...
Thats two weeks from today if you are counting or even if you are not.April 24 will be when a U.S. federal appeals court will hear oral arguments on Vonages request for a stay while it appeals a finding it infringed Verizons patents. Last Friday, a lower court...
My interpretation: I agree with Om that the technology described here is so generic that a claim for infringement is highly unlikely. Entitled Method, server and telecommunications system for name translation on a conditional basis and/or to a telephone number, Verizons U.S. Patent 6,282,574 refers to:An enhanced name translation...
Just a few minutes ago, U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton issued an order barring Vonage from signing up new customers.The order is for the length of the appeal process, in which Vonage appeals a ruling that it infringed on three Verizon patents.The only good morsel of new on this...
In just a few hours from now, Vonage will hear if a Federal judge will grant a stay in his ruling that Vonage is liable for violating three of Verizons VoIP-related patents.U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton will either issue the injunction or provide Vonage with a stay....
The city of Baltimore has sued Vonage to collect an excise tax Vonage insists it shouldnt have to pay.As part of a deficit-reduction plan passed in 2004, the city imposed a $3.50 monthly tax on cell phones and land lines. Baltimore now says that the tax should apply to...
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