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Vonage Loses VoIP Case With Verizon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the time-to-pony-up dept.

cdrudge writes "A federal jury on Thursday said Vonage Holdings Corp. violated 3 of 5 patents of Verizon Communications Inc. and ordered the upstart Internet-phone company to pay $58m in damages as well as 5.5% in royalty fees per month per customer. Verizon said it would seek an injunction to block Vonage from using its patented technology. The jury did reject Verizon's claim of $200m in damages and that Vonage deliberately violated Verizon's patents. As you might expect, Vonage said it would appeal the decision and seek a stay if an injunction is granted. Judge Claude Hilton set a hearing for March 23 on whether to grant an injunction."

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  1. Woohoo! by SpiffyMarc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another win for the little guy! It's always nice when the system works.

  2. Re:The working system by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, you see, this one group of rich guys tried to screw over this other group of rich guys, but the second group of rich guys was like, "Oh no you didn't!" and the first group was like "What're you gonna do about it!" and then the jury said "We find in favor of the rich guys!"

    So you see, EVERYTHING is different now. Duh.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  3. Idiot journalist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Vonage was told to pay 5.5% in royalties each month for each customer."

    Wow, 5.5% for each customer you say? With 2.2 million customers that works out to 12100000% per month! Seems a little harsh if you ask me!

  4. 5.5% per customer?? by honkycat · · Score: 4, Funny

    as well as 5.5% in royalty fees per month per customer
    Hope they don't have more than 18 customers or that's more than 100%!!
  5. Re:The working system by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if you do it right, it's based on your neighbour's debt.

    Works for me - haven't had to pay for bandwidth in over a year ;-)

  6. Re:Hmmm... by vux984 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot even conceive of using 500 minutes in a single month.

    Spoken like a true /.er ;)

    20 whole minutes on the phone per day? Unthinkable, why would the guy I order pizza from need to talk to me anywhere near that much?

    And really, who else do we call?