Vonage in legal tussle with Nortel
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Vonage is getting sued?again. This time telecommunications maker Nortel Networks has filed a suit against the company.
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BREAKING NEWS - It may be extremely slim comfort for VoIP services provider Vonage in the wake of yesterday's total loss in the patent infringement suit brought against it by Sprint Nextel, but Vonage will take it nonetheless: A federal appeals court upheld today only two of the three patent infringement decisions in last March's case brought on by Verizon, remanding the third to a lower court for retrial.
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(InfoWorld) - A federal jury has found that Vonage infringed three Verizon patents and must pay $58 million in damages plus royalties to Verizon, Vonage confirmed Thursday. Verizon sued Vonage last June, alleging the VoIP provider had violated seven of its patents involving the packet-based calling technology. In reality, the giant carrier sued to try to eliminate "a formidable competitor" to part of its traditional phone business, said Vonage spokeswoman Brooke Schulz. Vonage must pay a 5.5 percent royalty rate on future sales to use the Verizon technology. After the verdict, Verizon asked for a permanent injunction to stop Vonage from using the technology altogether, Vonage confirmed. In a statement, Vonage said it expects the verdict to be reversed on appeal. The award was 70 percent lower than the $197 million that Verizon originally sought, Vonage said. There is no basis for an injunction, and Vonage will seek a stay from the Federal Court of Appeals if it is imposed, the company said. Vonage customers should not see any change to their service, Vonage said. "We are proud of our inventors and pleased the jury stood up for the legal protections they deserve," Verizon said in a statement. Â
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Agreement bundles Vonage software with Hewlett-Packard computers.
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Internet phone company Vonage Holdings  Corp. said on Friday it was not going out of business despite a  jury's verdict a day earlier that it infringed on three patents  owned by Verizon Communications Inc.
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Vonage, an Internet phone company, may receive a temporary lifeline as it struggles to survive a patent dispute with Verizon Communications.
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Ciena Corp. sued rival Nortel Networks Corp. yesterday for allegedly copying six patented technologies Ciena uses in designing its network equipment.
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The FCC ruled that Vonage&#39;s broadband telephony service is not subject to traditional state public utility regulation and asserted its federal authority over VoIP.
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In the opening salvos of the patent infringement case between Vonage and Verizon, the telecommunications company claimed Vonage caused serious harm, while the VoIP provider said it had no knowledge of Verizon's patents.
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Internet-based calling company Vonage  Holdings Corp  said it has agreed to settle a patent  dispute with Nortel Networks   with no payment of  damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent.
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Internet phone service Vonage on Tuesday said it has struck a deal with Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to sell Vonage-ready equipment at hundreds of retail stores in a bid to boost new subscriptions.
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Company "delighted" it wasn't more A US District Court jury said Vonage Holdings violated three patents held by Verizon Communications and ordered the VoIP telephony company to pay $58m in damages and annual royalties.â¦
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T-Mobile Austria has selected Nortel (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) to replace its existing packet core network with a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) solution for delivery of multimedia and 'always on' high-speed ...
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The cost of Vonage's VoIP technology development policy - build now, ask questions later - hardened a bit more after the close of stock trading this afternoon. Vonage has agreed to settle with the first of its three aggrieved parties, Verizon, in an unusual deal that hinges upon a forthcoming ruling from an appeals court and a separate injunction ruling from a district court.
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Nortel alleges that Vonage infringes on 12 of its patents that broadly deal with click-to-call systems, with the management or architecture of VoIP system resources and with call-tracing methods in packet-switched networks.
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Internet-based calling company Vonage Holdings Corp  said it has agreed to settle a patent dispute with Nortel Networks   with no payment of damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent.
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Nortel Networks Corp., a telephone equipment maker that is the focus of regulatory and criminal probes in the US and Canada, delayed by a month the filing of financial statements for 2003 and the first half of 2004.