[asterisk-users] Verizon-Vonage Lawsuit

[Dean Collins]

I blogged about it here
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/software-patents.html

 

 

Though I think GigaOm nailed it when they wrote 

 

"Verizon can't make the Internet go away with a patent lawsuit".
http://gigaom.com/2007/04/08/voip-patent-mess/

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Dean Collins

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+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

 

 

 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com

> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
Bosch

> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:23 PM

> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion

> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Verizon-Vonage Lawsuit

> 

> Salvatore Giudice wrote:

> > BTW, the main problem with these patents is that they tend to lower
the

> rate

> > of adoption for new standards. Nothing kills a standard quicker than
when

> > someone patents it.

> >

> > For example, someone out there even has a patent on ENUM:

> >

>
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20060020713.html?highlight=enum&stemmin
g=o

> n

> >

> > It made me mad that he beat me to it. Roflol... Regardless, this
won't

> help

> > with ENUM adoption.

> >

> > Any joker with about $6k per patent and some time on his hands to
monitor

> > emerging standards can easily generate some patent entertainment for

> > themselves at the expense of others...

> >

> > So, the question of the day is: "Have you thought about patenting

> something

> > today?"

> >

> > It's easy. I just got a new idea while writing this for an ENUM
related

> > patent that I may pursue at some point... =)

> 

> The US patent system is totally broken. It started with lobbying
efforts

> to relax the applicability rules for patents for short-term gain. In
the

> long term, it's going to do big damage to American competitiveness.

> 

> And that's the sad thing about this. It discourages actual innovation

> (despite Wall Street protests to the contrary). If everytime you want
to

> build on somebody else's work you have to build a skein of licencing

> agreements, you start to ask yourself, "why should I bother?" More and

> more companies are answering that one with "We shouldn't" -- there's

> enough action to be had in other parts of the world, where the

> conditions are much less onerous.

> 

> Another example of that kind of short-sighted thinking is what
happened

> to the US crypto business when all the export controls were brought
in.

> (A lot of damage was done in exchange for no demonstrable security
benefit.)

> 

> Obviously, a market that big and moneyed isn't going to be ignored:
how

> can it be? But what used to be a no-brainer isn't so obvious anymore
--

> staying out of the US market is a serious option where it wasn't
before,

> and that just leads to further Balkanization.

> 

> It's fitting that an open source product like Asterisk is helping keep

> the US in the game.

> 

> -Stephen-

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