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Vonage Wins Permanent Stay in Verizon Case
kamikaze-Tech writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC today issued Vonage a permanent stay of a previous court's injunction that would have barred it from signing up new customers. Vonage sought the stay following an April 6th decision by the US District Court in Alexandria, VA enjoining the company from using certain VoIP technology to add new customers."
..... Whoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo!
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They continue the appeals process. If they win on appeal, Vonage continues doing business. If they exhaust all available appeals and lose, the injuction goes back into effect, Vonage can't sign up any more customers and eventually goes out of business, unless it gets bought out by Verizon.
As a very happy Vonage customer, I'm hoping they win.
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I have a hunch that Vonage will survive http://gigaom.com/2007/04/08/voip-patent-mess/ this article talks about how Verizon really shoudn't have the patents in the first place, and this might be a good argument in the appeals process.
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