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Quoted in Los Angeles Times

I was quoted in today’s edition of the Los Angeles Times regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. I had a busy day yesterday and I received quite a few calls from reporters regarding this issue. I already blogged about the...

Posted on April 7, 2007 5:14 PM

Quoted in San Jose Mercury News

I was quoted in today’s edition of the San Jose Mercury News regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. I had a busy day yesterday and I received quite a few calls from reporters regarding this issue. I already blogged about...

Posted on April 7, 2007 3:25 PM

Quoted in Chicago Tribune

I was quoted in today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. The article by Jon Van is well written and explains the situation well. When I spoke with Jon, the court ordered Vonage to stop...

Posted on April 7, 2007 1:14 PM

Vonage Spared For Now

Vonage today secured a temporary stay from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. The stay enables Vonage to continue to sign up new customers until the Appellate court can hear Vonage's request for a permanent...

Posted on April 6, 2007 6:04 PM

Vonage Left for Dead?

While much of the world is celebrating Good Friday, at Vonage it could not be a worse day as a judge has issued an injunction against the leading pure-play VoIP firm barring it from signing up new customers. Lawyers from...

Posted on April 6, 2007 2:02 PM

Vonage Bankruptcy Discussed

Many people have been asking me about the Vonage situation in light of a recent stock downgrade from Citibank analyst Michael Rollins, who said that Vonage probably has a couple of years to go and at that point they will...

Posted on March 29, 2007 7:45 PM

Vonage Shut Down

There are rumors flying that Vonage will be shut down. Unfortunately as this company is a poster child for VoIP, what happens to it could have negative impact on the industry at large. This is too bad. There are a...

Posted on March 23, 2007 5:13 PM

Verizon and Vonage Patent Dispute: What the Means to VoIP

One of the concerns some have for the future of Vonage is the recent patent dispute ruling requiring Vonage to pay Verizon one-time and recurring royalties for infringement on patents Verizon owns. This issue has ramifications perhaps for the entire...

Posted on March 15, 2007 9:41 AM

Vonage Patent Spoof

The power of YouTube reveals itself  at the expense of Vonage....

Posted on March 14, 2007 9:05 AM

Living in the Third World of Communications

If you haven’t heard, a court decided Vonage needs to pay Verizon $58 million in past damages for patent infringement in the following areas:   Technology used to bridge Internet calls to the traditional phone system Features such as call-waiting...

Posted on March 8, 2007 11:26 PM

Caritas/Comcast VoIP Patent Victory

The VoIP market won a victory in Texas yesterday with Comcast defending itself successfully against a $2.2 billion lawsuit brought on by Caritas Technologies. The company was formed by four men, including David Farber, who many consider the grandfather Internet,...

Posted on November 14, 2006 10:26 AM

Microsoft Patents

eWeek does a great job on this article about Microsoft applying for a verb conjugating patent. Not everyone is thrilled with the patent by the way – some cite that the patent system is out of control – conjugating patents...

Posted on September 7, 2006 6:05 PM

Net2Phone Sues Skype/eBay

Anyone who has been in this business long enough knows that before Skype ever existed, Net2Phone was selling VoIP service. The company was one of the first to be part of the Internet Telephony shows. I remember being in their...

Posted on June 4, 2006 8:41 AM

RIM Vs. Visto

Blackberry maker Research in Motion must have incorporated on Friday the 13th because they seem to continually be in the spotlight for patent infringement problems. This time it isn't NTP but Visto who wants (take a wild guess) an injunction...

Posted on May 1, 2006 7:33 PM

Blackberry NTP Legal Analysis

The news of the day is whether the United Nations Security Council will impose sanctions on Iran. Sanctions are the ultimate weapon of pain (not including war of course) and are meant to bring a country to its knees in...

Posted on March 9, 2006 9:35 AM

Why Blackberry Settled

There are a few reasons why RIM settled with NTP and paid more than $600 million. RIM lost focus as a result of this lawsuit and the competitors are circling while smelling blood. RIM's devices need to rapidly improve or...

Posted on March 4, 2006 2:51 PM

Top 8 Things to do if Blackberry Gets Shut Down

8) Meet your family for the first time since your company (or government) gave you one7) Run to the store and buy the recently introduced Blackberry Patch6) a) Close your eyes. b) Count to 10. c) Figure out how to...

Posted on February 24, 2006 2:57 PM

Blackberry Saga Continues

The saga that is the NTP versus Rim case may soon be (hopefully) coming to an end. The judge is impatient with the case and it seems that the pendulum is swinging ever so slowly back to RIM’s side. In...

Posted on February 24, 2006 2:47 PM

NTP Losing Steam

It would seem that NTP is losing steam in its patent case against RIM....

Posted on February 22, 2006 6:23 PM

James Seng on RIM

James Seng comments on the goings on at RIM and how a simple patent issue could have gone away a long time ago. Apparently Research in Motion co-founder, President and CEO Mike Lazaridis just doesn't like to compromise. Now the...

Posted on January 30, 2006 10:49 PM

Rates Technology and Mitel

I recently received this e-mail regarding Mitel and Rates Technology. The e-mail came from Simon Gwatkin, VP Strategic Marketing Mitel Networks.Hi Rich,I read your blog (and others) re the Rates Technology lawsuits. I noticed the mention that we were being...

Posted on January 4, 2006 1:48 PM

JPEG Patents and Yahoo!

Patents have become huge in the computing industry. I thought my Rates Technology vs. Google Patent Troll post from earlier today was the end of the patent news for today. Boy was I wrong. I just learned that Yahoo! Has...

Posted on January 2, 2006 12:45 PM

Patent Troll

I found a great site that discusses computer and related technology patents. The site is called Peter Zura's Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog. Peter describes 2005 as the year of the patent troll. Here is an excerpt from his post titled 2005:...

Posted on January 2, 2006 8:52 AM

Rates Technology Inc. (RTI) Articles

My blog entry on Rates Technology has been getting a great deal of traction. As you may recall the company is suing Google over the VoIP portion of its Google Talk program. I noticed Playfuls.com a site out of Romania...

Posted on December 29, 2005 9:35 AM

Rates Technology Sues Google

Many months back I wrote an article on Rates Technology Inc.– A company with a patent portfolio currently being used to persuade VoIP equipment and service vendors to pay a fee in exchange for protection from a patent infringement lawsuit....

Posted on December 27, 2005 6:12 PM