[Asterisk-Users] Sprint Nextel sueing over VoIP patents

[Paul Traue, Jr.]

Depending upon the patents in question, a few companies (Cisco comes to 
mind) may have prior art here.  I know that a company cisco bought was 
doing VoIP in 1998, but no indications of which patents this is, or when 
they were filed.

Paul

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> Sprint Nextel is sueing vonage, voiceglo and theglobe.com for infringing
> on VoIP patents.  Sprint Nextel claims to have about 100 patents on VoIP
> technologies.  Does anyone know which ones this article is talking
> about, and if so does asterisk have any of those features?  
> 
> The reason I am asking is that the article is vague, Vonage uses a
> fairly standard codec set, I dont know about the others.  So if its not
> codecs I wonder if its something so generic that the patent would be
> tossed out upon challenge.  
> 
> Anyone thinking about doing a VoIP business may want to get more info
> before proceeding since they may not have the millinos vonage has to
> fight this.
> 
> http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2005/10/03/daily23.html
> 
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