Today in VoIP

1st Verizon went after, and won, a law suit with Vonage for patent infringment. Then they went after companies like VoIP Inc and others.  Now Verizon has turned its sites on Cox and Charter Cable. Is this a scare tactic to keep companies from competing against the incumbent phone companies or does this have merit. Verizon is contending that the technical approach being use by these companies infringes on patents and of course no one wants to see someone patented technolgy stolen from them, but where is the limit? What will Verizon contend next? That they created Al Gore *he he*

While reading articles about patent infringement it is important to keep in mind that the sad fact of these issues is that it is not technology that is being defended or fought over but rather conceptual thoughts on how things might work.  Even though Vonage lost the case is still in appeal and more notably even the jurt stated that any infringement was not intentional

Come on Verizon, maybe instead of holding on to the “good old past” and fighitng over idea you should join in and see if you can help us advance technology

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