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Today’s Wacky Telecom Patent Round-Up: Verizon & BellSouth

March 13th, 2007 1 comment
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A couple of our patents were referenced by two new grants today to Verizon and BellSouth. Verizon's Device Independant Caller ID describes the ability to route caller ID from The PSTN to alternative networks such as internet or SMS (For example a user could choose to be alerted of a call by email or ...

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Patent Payouts come to VoIP

March 9th, 2007 No comments

The US courts awarded Verizon $58 million in damages against Vonage. The judge ruled that Vonage was infringing on three patents that mainly deal with connecting an internet based phone call to the public network. oops. This may have interesting consequences for the VoIP industry as we know it. Source: www.washingtonpost.com [tags]technology,special-reports,Verizon[/tags]