{"id":6092,"date":"2007-11-16T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/vonage-loses-again.html"},"modified":"2007-11-16T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:54:27","slug":"vonage-loses-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/vonage-loses-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Vonage Loses Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">If Vonage has been having great luck in terms of mindshare and being top of mind as a pure-play VoIP provider, it has been equally unlucky in the patent wars as evidenced by the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/voipservices.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/14756-vonage-patent-case-request-denied.htm\">loss<\/a> in the US Court of Appeals regarding the rehearing of a Verizon patent infringement case.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Had Vonage won it could have saved paying Verizon $40 million or more specifically $80 million instead of $120 million.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">For more detail on the matter check out this article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=ab3LRWLagfCw&amp;refer=home\">Bloomberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/voipservices.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/14756-vonage-patent-case-request-denied.htm\">TMCnet<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Vonage has been having great luck in terms of mindshare and being top of mind as a pure-play VoIP provider, it has been equally unlucky in the patent wars as evidenced by the recent loss in the US Court of Appeals regarding the rehearing of a Verizon patent infringement case. &nbsp; Had Vonage won<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,160,199,189,118,191,205,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092"}],"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=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}