Juicy Tidbit for Vonage to Chew On?
Source: www.voip-news.com
Last week, Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch had an interesting exchange on Vonage’s recent patent issues. You can read the complete exchange right here, but in the meantime, here’s a teaser:
I originally wrote up this patent for USR back in early 1996 (US patent number 6,529,501), it is now assigned to 3Com. The whole purpose of this patent was how to address mapping computers, VOIP phone devices, and regular phones to each other using the PSTN and the Internet using central lookup servers to match phone numbers and IP addresses. As far as I can tell, it covers most of the issues that Verizon sued Vonage over. I’m a hardware/software engineer, not a patent lawyer, so I don’t know if any of has any implications. The Verizon patent does not reference mine, nor mine theirs, which would mean that both of our patent applications were in process at the same time and that the examiners were not aware of the other application. Anyway, food for thought,
