FaceFon Video Phone on its way?

February 7, 2008
FacefonMork over at Trademork informed me about LG Electronics filing a patent filing a patent for FaceFon.

On January 29, 2008, electronics behemoth LG Electronics filed to protect the trademark FaceFon in relation to “telephones; videophones; cellular telephones; wireless local loop telephones; telephone handsets; computer telephony software (enables telephone activities to be performed through a computer); computer terminals”.

I'm going to assume from the name which sounds like "face phone" that this is some sort of face-to-face video phone. Even the two letter F's face each other with one of them backwards. And lest we forget, I wrote about the LG-Nortel Microsoft OCS phones here.

Here's a photo of the LG-Nortel 8540, which already sports a nice color LCD display, so adding video wouldn't be a stretch:
LG-Nortel 8540

So my friends, is this (FaceFon) going to be another LG-Nortel phone for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) platform? Or is this going to be a SIP-compliant video phone that works on any SIP-compliant PBX? Or will this be tied specifically to Nortel PBX? So many questions, so little time...

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  1. Randell :
    April 3, 2008 10:24 AM

    That's a trademark, not a patent...
    Also note it was applied for in 1999, granted in 2001, and has been unused. Without reading all the documents, this appears to be just the unsealing of the trademark (sometime last year) - no indication they're using it.


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