[asterisk-biz] SUSPECT: Wanted: DID Provider - Correct DNID Essential

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 07:36 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote:
> LOL.
> 
> Not that this sort of patent would hold anyway - there's
> a ton of people who've already thought about this a LONG
> time ago, and plenty of discussions to prove it (prior art).
> 
> Any way you look at it- waste of his money, and the patent
> office's time.

and yet using billing records to detect fraud is an established patent.
Fax->email has prior art (published by SGI) and yet J2 still has their
patent.  In both situations verizon and J2 have won awards or at least
had their patent affirmed in court.  

There are tons of examples where people file patents either because its
cheaper to settle than fight (J2 for example, RTI with LCR as another)
and there is an entire business model that has been based on filing
bogus patents (or just buying them up cheap) and then going after people
for a small settlement/licensing fee.  

You may not agree with it, you may not like it, but it is something that
is done quite often.  It is also something that every business owner has
to prepare themselves for since you can end up losing money either way,
especially in the US.  Even if you win in court, you still lose since
there is a resistance to reform the tort process, you have to pay your
legal costs yourself.


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