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Is It The End of cheap VoIP Services? Verizon recently won a $58 million lawsuit against Vonage and it may be able to get a permanent injunction to stop Vonage from offering VoIP services. It is quite likely that the Verizon victory in the patent infringement case is going to intensify the war amongst a number of telecom players. BusinessWeek reports that the CEO of one such company, VoIP, Inc., Anthony Cataldo has already asked his lawyers to start proceedings against companies that he thinks are using his company’s technology. This may herald a new litigious era in the Internet-based telephony. Ed Pennington, head of the patent practice for Bingham McCutchen, a Washington law firm, reportedly told an audience in San Jose, California, “It is not unusual to spend $10 million either prosecuting or defending a patent case.” On another note, BusinessWeek says that according to the Patent & Trademark Office, there are 2,273 patents in VoIP area. With so many patent to protect and with such high cost pretty soon VoIP may cease to be cheap alternatively, thus eroding its inherent appeal against the established telecom providers like Verizon.
| Posted: March 28, 2007 04:26 PM |
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