<div>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. </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Henry L.Coleman</b> <<a href="mailto:asterisk@voip-pbx.ca">asterisk@voip-pbx.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This legal question pops up every now and then, and depending on how<br>paranoid you are you can eventually start thinking that the US patent
<br>office is under your bed.(I'm just checking now)<br>First thing to note is that you aren't worth suing. This is a game that<br>only applies to very big companies where you want to screw your competiton<br>and have more lawyers than they do.
<br>Second thing to note is that this applies to US based companies only,<br>(the country that still doesn't have universal health care).<br>World wide, anything else falls into the UN or the EU. None of these<br>organizations are dumb enough to get involved in anything as petty as
<br>this. Simply put, no-one outside corporate (telecom) America gives a<br>"monkey's balls" who first coined the term "Call Forwarding" or "ADSL"....<br><br>There are more important things in life
<br>--<br>Henry L. Coleman.</blockquote></div>