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VoIP startup Vonage has settled down a legal dispute with Klausner Technologies and reached out an agreement to use their patents relating to voicemail services. This is the second major settlement of Vonage this week.

Earlier this week, the VoIP pioneer agreed to pay some $80 million to Sprint Nextel as part of the settlement. In return, Sprint Nextel has granted more than 100 VoIP patents to Vonage.

It is nice to learn that Vonage is trying to come out of legal hassles and focus on its core business, which in the long turn will help the company to rebuild its brand image in the market.

Judah Klausner-founded Klausner Technologies sued Vonage last year claiming Vonages voicemail platform infringes its technology and sought $180 million damages.

Klausner Technologies controls nearly 25 patents relating to IP-based voicemail services. The company had earlier allowed AOL to use its voicemail patent.

Vonage is still fighting a legal battle with Verizon Communication. The residential VoIP company was ordered to pay $58 million in damages, plus 5.5 percent royalties on future revenues for the violation of three Verizon patents.

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated the $58 million judgment against the residential VoIP player under the ground that the lower court had wrongly interpreted one of the three patents.

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There is some good news for beleaguered Vonage. The U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated the $58 million judgment against the residential VoIP player under the ground that the lower court had wrongly interpreted one of the three patents. The appeals court has directed the lower court to revert the first two patents.

The appeals court pronounced,

We vacate in its entirety the award of $58,000,000 in damages and the 5.5 percent royalty and remand to the district court for further proceedings. We affirm the injunction as to the 574 and 711 patents. We vacate the injunction insofar as it pertains to the 880 patent.

Way back March this year, the Virginia Court had ordered Vonage to pay Verizon Communications $58 million for violating three VoIP patents and 5.5 percent royalties that the company acquired by using Verizons patents. The patent 880 is a reference to Vonages wireless access to provide VoIP service.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City Federal court has ordered Vonage to pay $69.5 million fine for infringing patents of Sprint Nextel.

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Verizon Communication will soon introduce a new unified communication services for the business enterprises ensuring them to build up a cost effective communication network for their business operation.

The unified service will be available for the customers of Hosted IP Centrex customers. The Hosted IP Centrex service brings a dynamic hub in a corporate network where the workers can access to voice mail, control incoming and outgoing calls. They can also manage their online presence, send text messages and synchronize contacts and calendars.

Verizon said that the Hosted IP Centrex integrated with companys Integrated Communication Package will help organizations proficiently support teleworkers, fulfill mobility requirements and unify communications.

The Integrated Communications Package will be available in USA from next month. Its monthly charge is $5.50 per user. The non-American customers can access to this service later this year.

Verizon Business will also add audio, net and video conferencing services and contact center services to its Integrated Communications Package.

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Vonage may be weak due to huge loss in the aftermath of stunning debacle in the patent battle against Verizon Communication, but the VoIP pioneer is not dead as rumored in the blogsphere.

Vonage is now preparing a strong ground to face another pending patent war against Sprint Nextel. The company has stoutly said that its patent lawsuit with Sprint Nextel Corp is not so series like the case it lost to Verizon last month.

We have fresh memory on the consequences of Vonage-Verizon legal battle. Vonage was ordered to pay $58 million in damages and 5.5 percent of revenue for infringing three VoIP patents of Verizon.

Vonage shares tumbled in the stock market following the court order. In the New York Stock Exchange, Vonage shared dropped 7 cents to to $3.07. The stock has dropped 82 percent since it was first sold to the public for $17 a share last year.

In the backdrop of this, the impeding patent battle with Sprint Nextel is taken very seriously by Vonage customers. Sprint Nextel had filed lawsuit Vonage two years ago claiming the company has infringed its packetized voice and data communications technology and seeks an injuction. The case will be trialed in September.

Vonages Chief Financial Officer (CFO), John Rego sees amicable solution. He believes that the Sprint case will probably be resolved in some sort of business agreement somewhere down the pike.

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has turned down Vonages retrial plea in the high profile patent infringement case against Verizon Communication.

The VoIP pioneering company had earlier lost the patent infringement case filed by Verizon and was ordered to pay $58m in damages, pay a 5.5 per cent royalty to Verizon, and injected not to register any new customers.

Vonage had challenged in a court filing that a landmark Supreme Court judgment this week has raised critical questions about whether a jury appropriately determined that the Verizon patents in question were legitimate.

On those grounds, Vonage has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to toss out a $58 million patent infringement ruling against it and order a fresh trial.

However, the appeals court explained it would not demand a retrial, but that Vonage can refer the fresh Supreme Court order as part of its pending appeal of the case.

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The US based VoIP Company Verizon Communications has released its second quarter result on 1 August. The report reveals that Verizons profit has fell by 24 percent. The Company has also lost around one million landline phone customers.

Faced with unpleasant Q2 result, Verizon Wireless has decided not to purchase Vodafone Group PLCs 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless for the next several years.

Verizon admits landline customers are plunking the nations second-largest phone company at an increasing rate for cable, internet and wireless service. These cable companies are Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp.

The number of landlines customers of Verizon fell 1 million in the second quarter, to 47 million. While, Verizon Wireless customers has increased 1.8 million, to 54.8 million. At the same time, Verizon’s high-speed Internet connections touched 440,000, to 6.1 million, in the second quarter.

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