[asterisk-users] Patent issues, what features we can't use?

Zeeshan Zakaria zishanov at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 15:04:17 CDT 2007


After consulting with more experienced folk in the industry, some of which
are running telecom companies for years, I came to the same conclusion what
Henry has said. Now I feel much better and relaxed.

On 8/14/07, Henry L.Coleman <asterisk at voip-pbx.ca> wrote:
>
> This legal question pops up every now and then, and depending on how
> paranoid you are you can eventually start thinking that the US patent
> office is under your bed.(I'm just checking now)
> First thing to note is that you aren't worth suing. This is a game that
> only applies to very big companies where you want to screw your competiton
> and have more lawyers than they do.
> Second thing to note is that this applies to US based companies only,
> (the country that still doesn't have universal health care).
> World wide, anything else falls into the UN or the EU. None of these
> organizations are dumb enough to get involved in anything as petty as
> this. Simply put, no-one outside corporate (telecom) America gives a
> "monkey's balls" who first coined the term "Call Forwarding" or "ADSL"....
>
> There are more important things in life
> --
> Henry L. Coleman.
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