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Vonage Goes To Court III - The AT&T Suit
kickabear writes "AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Vonage, claiming patent infringement. This is the third major lawsuit to have been brought against Vonage by a major phone company. Vonage lost the previous two lawsuits, brought by Sprint-Nextel and Verizon. How much more money can Vonage afford to give away? How can Vonage educate a jury on prior art? 'It said in a filing to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission that AT&T is seeking injunctive relief, compensatory and treble damages and attorneys' fees in unspecified amounts. Vonage said the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin on October 17.'"
I've read the various comments. Yes the patent system is screwed. Yes it needs reforming. Yes the people that work at the USPTO are dumb as lead and wouldn't know a neutron from an atom.
However, I am sick of people in this forum crying about getting rid of patents.
When companies or individuals have worked on technology for 5-10 years to bring it to market readiness and spent ridiculous amounts of money on marketing the idea to the masses, its nice to know that your hard work is protected from the chinks who don't give a shite about patents and infringement or from those corporations that have tons of money and think they can just steamroll your innovation because you can't afford to fuckin sue them.
A good and fair patent system is needed.