[Asterisk-Users] more voip patent madness

[Dave Cotton]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:49 -0700, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> Teles obtains US patent also for VoIP telephony method
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/65126
> 
> They are already involved in a lawsuit in germany over their patent
> there, now that they have a US patent expect lawsuits in the US as
> well.  
> 
> This just adds to the "about 100 patents on VoIP" that sprint-nextel
> has, and sprint-nextels willingness to sue.  Course sprint-nextel cant
> do boost mobile services anymore becuase prepaid mobile service is
> patented.  What goes around comes around, and its all insane.

Have a look at this article

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005101916522254

Some of the comments are interesting.

With any luck the US will patent itself into a corner. 


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Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>