[asterisk-biz] Verizon v Vonage

[Matthew Rubenstein]

	The judge in the pretrial hearings disagrees with your finding that the
claims are too broad:

[from
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070220/vonage.art.htm ]:
> In total, Verizon has 48 different "terms," or patent claims in
> dispute. In pretrial rulings, Verizon has succeeded in getting broad
> interpretations of its claims.
> 
> William Bosch, a Vonage lawyer, conceded last week that it's been a
> tough slog. "Frankly, we didn't anticipate that all 48 terms would be
> construed to Verizon's favor," Bosch told the judge.
> 
> As a result of the court's rulings, Bosch said, Verizon's "patents are
> now so broad, it may be that nobody can design around them."


	If Vonage's big money and veteran hustler CEO can't get those claims
cut down to save his life, what chance do Asterisk operators have?


On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:26 -0500, Brian Fertig wrote:
> I read up on Verizon's claims against Vonage and found their patents are 
> in
> no way shape or form precise enough to hold any weight.  They are so broad
> that
> Asterisk could never work around the patens of Verizon but just remove 
> them
> instead.
> 
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> Brian Fertig
> Sr. Data & Telecom Engineer
> Molten, Inc.
> Delaware Office
> 
> 
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> |bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Rubenstein
> |Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:08 AM
> |To: Asterisk-Biz
> |Subject: [asterisk-biz] Verizon v Vonage
> |
> |	Verizon is suing Vonage for violating 48 patent claims, to shut
> |Vonage
> |down:
> |http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070220/vonage.art.htm . If
> |Verizon is granted a monopoly on operating under those patents, what
> |other VoIP services will have to shut down? Is Asterisk either immune,
> |or able to change quickly enough to operate outside these patents?
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> |(C) Matthew Rubenstein
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein