{"id":4055,"date":"2005-12-27T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/rates-technology-sues-google.html"},"modified":"2005-12-27T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:12:04","slug":"rates-technology-sues-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/rates-technology-sues-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Rates Technology Sues Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many months back I wrote an article on <\/font>Rates Technology Inc<\/font><\/a>.\u2013 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\u2019t 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\u2019t discovering them but it does seem I was the first to take the time to explain how the company works.<\/p>\n

Fast forward about eight months. Today I received an e-mail from <\/font>Tom Keating<\/font><\/a> telling me that Om Malik has <\/font>linked<\/font><\/a> to me in his blog regarding Rates Technology.<\/p>\n

I was pretty blown away as I thought I would never hear about this company again. It seems according to Om<\/place \/> and an excellent <\/font>article<\/font><\/a> on SearchEngineWatch.com that Rates Technology is now suing Google for patent infringement. I figure if the company can go after the largest telecom companies in the world, Google shouldn\u2019t be too big to tackle.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how this one plays out as this case could have ramifications for the entire VoIP industry.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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