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...
Yesterday, the Canadian federal government announced it would overrule that nations CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Communications Commission) and de-regulate VoIP.Last year, the CRTC regulated VoIP by enacting pricing restrictions on traditional telephone companies and the rates they were able to chare without regulatory approval. The fear was that in...
Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...
FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedentif comcast is truly guiltythey should be fine and severely monitor and audit for a period of time . so they walk straight. FCC should make a example out of them so other should fear FCC for realRE: FCC slaps Comcast's...
Your thoughts on net neutralityYeah. Hows that workin out for us so far?"The Department submits, however, that free market competition, unfettered by unnecessary governmental regulatory restraints, is the best way to foster innovation and development of the Internet."The US has internet services that are made a laughing stock by...
I affirm, I really was going to drop this Ron Paul rant I pursued in my earlier post.But some facts in this morning's post by my highly respected Washington, D.C.-centric colleague Declan McCullagh entitled Ron Paul: The Internet's Favorite Candidate" made me realize there are some lessons that...
SunRocket orphans, send me your switching storiesVonage: morons on the phone...A less than auspicious start to my relationship with Vonage. I signed up on Monday (16 July). They won't give me the 2-month free deal because "that's Tuesday's deal", so unless I cancel my account and reapply from...
A federal appeals court recently ruled that VoIP services like Vonage should not be regulated the same as phone companies, reports the Associated Press. The decision - which upholds a 2004 FCC finding that VoIP should not be saddled with existing regulations - bars states from...
While I am here in my office making tea, Im also trying to read tea leaves about why a group of Vonages largest shareholders asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to postpone a regulatory step that would make it easier for these execs to sell their stock.This...
New group aims to 'save the Internet'It's too late! The internet c'aint be saved!. periodWHAT First Amendment?Hell, they took that out of the Constitution with with "Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform."Pep Rally is in the Eye of the ReporterThe reporter and by extention CNET may have woven a little bias into...
Debate heats up over Net neutralityExactlyntThat is a fantastic ideaI'd gravitate toward a ISP that had a better video download time, an clearer VOIP, than one that didn't. It's a great idea.Good ideaI mentioned I would be okay with net neutrality rules in my blog on the subject of...
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