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. I wasn’t sure if people would care about my article because there were few references to Rates Technology on the Internet. Since Rates Technology has been around for years I certainly wasn’t discovering them but it does seem I was the first to take the time to explain how the company works.
Fast forward about eight months. Today I received an e-mail from
Tom Keating telling me that Om Malik has linked to me in his blog regarding Rates Technology.I was pretty blown away as I thought I would never hear about this company again. It seems according to
As the pricing structure Rates Technology charges is based on tiers I imagine Google is in the highest one and as such has a massive amount to pay. I suppose the search giant thinks litigation may be the cheapest way to go on this one.
It will be interesting to see how this one plays out as this case could have ramifications for the entire VoIP industry.
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December 31, 2005 at 4:32 pmRTI Patents
Thanks to TechDirt I decided to poke around in the actual RTI Patents that have caused the web outcry since RTI sued Google. Jerry Weinberger the man behind RTI patented least cost routing back in the late 1970s and this…
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