{"id":5441,"date":"2007-04-24T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/vonage-saved-once-again.html"},"modified":"2007-04-24T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:31:01","slug":"vonage-saved-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/vonage-saved-once-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Vonage Saved Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The nation&rsquo;s leading pure-play VoIP telephone replacement service has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/24\/2551594.htm\">received<\/a> a new and perhaps temporary lease on life as the U.S. Court of Appeals extended the stay of an earlier decision allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">According to a CNET online report, the three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reportedly questioned Verizon and Vonage attorneys at length about the district court&rsquo;s interpretation of the three disputed patents related to VoIP telephone service. Much of the wrath has been directly at Vonage attorney Roger Warin, according to reports.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&quot;It&#8217;s very hard to tell from the briefs what&#8217;s going on here,&quot; Judge Timothy Dyk was quoted as telling Warin shortly after the attorney began his arguments. The onus of proof remains on Vonage to convince judges that a permanent stay to the junction is needed as the VoIP telephone service provider struggles to stay afloat.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">As many in the VoIP industry know the patents Verizon is using in this case are coming under scrutiny as some sources report having used identical technology a full five years prior to Verizon&rsquo;s patent applications.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">See also:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/24\/2551594.htm\">Court Gives Vonage Short-Term Reprieve on New Customer Ban: Report<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/24\/2551587.htm\">Vonage Injunction Stayed in Patent Case<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/24\/2551420.htm\">Vonage Wins Permanent Stay in Verizon Patent Litigation<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=8832&amp;akst_action=share-this\">Vonage wins Permanent Stay<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/ip-telephony\/?p=1563\">Vonage wins: for now<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,131154-c,legalissues\/article.html\">Vonage Wins Permanent Stay in Patent Case<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&rsquo;s leading pure-play VoIP telephone replacement service has received a new and perhaps temporary lease on life as the U.S. Court of Appeals extended the stay of an earlier decision allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers. &nbsp; According to a CNET online report, the three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,191,205],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}