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Vonage Settles Patent Suit With Sprint-Nextel

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the money-can-soothe-a-lot-of-hurt-feelings dept.

mytrip writes to tell us that Vonage has been able to settle their patent differences with Sprint-Nextel for a mere $80 million. This settlement resolves all pending claims by Sprint-Nextel as well as licensing Vonage to use over 100 patents and a $5 million advance in prepayment for services.

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  1. Once again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As with the RIM suit, there was simply no way this wasn't going to get settled. I realize that in the minds of Stallmanist teenagers companies go out of business to make quixotic statements about the eeeeevils of patents, but in the adult world, some money gets passed around and life goes on.