[asterisk-biz] Vonage Vs. Verizon Update

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 	That's not a change in the status of the case. Vonage lost in that
> District Court, supposedly setting them up for an appeal in the court
> where actual patent and IP expertise is available. Verizon is just
> hitting Vonage with an injunction to enforce the patents found infringed
> in this first case, which Vonage will just 
> 
> 	It's a typically lawyer/telco load of BS, but it's standard operating
> procedure and the (Vonage) plan. If the district judge who granted the
> "permanent" injunction doesn't let Vonage out of it when they ask for
> it, then Vonage will ask the new appeals judge to lift that injunction.
> If neither judge lifts the injunction, then Vonage actually is screwed,
> because that also means those judges don't think the appeal is likely to
> be heard or to succeed. And if they actually stop Vonage infringing,
> therefore operating, before the appeal is successful, then they likely
> will have killed Vonage. And then each less funded competitor, like
> those (also) running Asterisk, will be in Verizon's sights.

Wouldn't most other telcos SBC and the "New Old AT&T" also be infringing 
on the call forwarding patents?  Wouldn't companies like Cox cable 
(which provide phone service via VoIP) also be infringing?  All these 
companies have very deep pockets.