On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
It seemed like no one could find the actual Verizon patents involved in the Verizon v. Vonage case that has been making the news. So I did a little digging. Let me tell you - the US Federal Government does not make these things easy! :)
Honestly, I really believe that Vonage is happy with this verdict. This means they get to go to the Federal Appelate Court, where there are actually judges who know and understand patent law, and have clerks who do too. The next trial will be huge for Vonage because the patents will be closely examined by judges and clerks with a deep knowledge of patent law and prior art research. I would bet that the patents that this court said they violated will be invalidated, thus the judgment overturned. I'm confident that Vonage will prevail, though I haven't looked at the patents myself. The jury didn't look at whether or not Verizon's patents were valid, they looked at if they infringed on the patents, and Vonage probably did. That was the right verdict. Now the appeal will state that the patents aren't valid, and that will be the basis of the appeal (I think), and this is where Verizon's patents will be heavily scrutinized for validity and prior art. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
