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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...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Verizon to court: why is Vonage objecting to our Patents NOW?
- InternetNews reports that on Thursday, Verizon urged a federal appeals court to reject Vonage's contention that a recent Supreme Court decision on obviousness justifies the reversal of a $58 million infringement judgment against the Internet telephony company. Verizon had written in its appeal that the April 30...
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- 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....
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Verizon vs. Vonage: Is WSJ ad department taking sides?
- Paul Kapustka at GigaOm has unearthed some information that appears to paint the picture that The Wall Street Journals ad department is either quite sympathetic to, or quite afraid of, Verizons reaction to Vonages ads for Vonages FreeToCompete.com website.Last night, Paul wrote:When we looked at the back page of Friday’s...
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- Vonage: when we battle Verizon, we're fighting "The Man"
- Well, if Vonage cant totally convince regulators, legislators, and judges of the righteousness of its cause, then Vonage can always try impressing us.The people, man. Thatd be all Americans of voting age that dont happen to be regulators, legislators or judges.Thats the only reason I can think of for...
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Vonage vs. Verizon: how will the Appeals Court rule tomorrow?
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Vonage: Verizon patent suit could bankrupt us
- Vonage said the Verizon patent suit could force the VOIP provider into bankruptcy. Vonage made that statement in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the Verizon patent suit was expected to be a risk factor for Vonage bankruptcy goes...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Complete Verizon-Vonage Patent analysis Part Three: 6,359,880
- Time for us to kick around the third in the three disputed Verizon Patents at the heart of the infringement claims against Vonage.Thats be Verizon Patent 6,359,880 - Public wireless/cordless internet gateway.Abstract:A localized wireless gateway system provides wireless telephone communication, and for at least interexchange communication, provides voice ...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Complete Verizon-Vonage Patent analysis Part Two: 6,104,711
- Now we will check out Verizons patent 6,104,711 - Enhanced internet domain name server.To me this is the most overgeneralized of all Verizons claims. As a matter of fact, this is a patent granted to Verizons predecessor Bell Atlantic back in 1997. The Patent Abstract describes:An enhanced name translation...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Complete Verizon-Vonage patent analysis Part One: 6,282,574
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Prediction: specter of Verizon judgment will cut Vonage's advertising, marketing budget
- Fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson notes a Marketwatch report that Vonage has delayed the filing of their annual report because of extra time needed to calculate the financial effects of the recent patent decision awarding Verizon $58 million because of findings Vonage has infringed on three of Verizons VoIP-enabling...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
Additional Resources
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Vonage in new Prospectus: our competitors may undercut, out-bundle us
- As I have already noted in a previous post, I have received a Prospectus for the sale of Vonage stock as part of its Vonage Share Customer Directed Program. The Prospectus is dated May 5. I have read the Prospectus, and have noted what Vonage says...
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
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