Vonage and Nortel settle patent dispute
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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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AT&T claims that Vonage, the internet telephone company, violated a 1996 patent that broadly describe the idea of routing telephone calls over data networks.
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Vonage Holdings and Nortel Networks have preliminarily agreed to cross-license several patents, ending a dispute between the companies without any monetary payments, Vonage said Monday.
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Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian maker of telecom equipment, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Vonage Â claiming that it violated nine patents related to Internet phone services and related features such as 911 and 411 calling and click to call.
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Vonage HoldingsÂ on Tuesday announced it has partnered with two companies to offer wireless telephone handsets for its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service.
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Vonage and AT&T finalize a deal in their patent infringement case.
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Verizon Communications won an appeals court ruling yesterday upholding most of a patent verdict over smaller rival Vonage Holdings, the second legal setback for the Internet phone company in as many days.
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(InfoWorld) - Vonage is downplaying an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon Communications. The decision, made Wednesday, calls for the U.S. District Court in Virginia to retry the infringement judgment on a third patent. It also vacated the original $58 million in damages and 5.5 percent royalty imposed in the original judgment. The lower court will reconsider the size of the damage award and Vonage expects it to be reduced, said Charlie Sahner, a Vonage spokesman. In addition, Vonage expects a return soon of part of the cash it put up as bond after the ruling was made, he said. The decision comes a day after Vonage lost anotherÂ high-profile patent infringement case brought by Sprint-Nextel. The jury in that case awarded Sprint $69.5 million in damages. Vonage vowed to appeal that decision too. Vonage has already deployed technology so that it doesn't require the two patents upheld in theÂ Verizon case, it said. That means that if the lower court upholds the decision to require Vonage to pay royalties for using the patents, the company will only have to do so related to the period of time before the workaround was implemented, Sahner said. The company maintains that it did not infringe on the remaining Verizon patent in question and plans to defend itself against any new damages judgments. That technology applies to less than 10 percent of Vonage's network, and the company has already completed development of a workaround should the court decide that Vonage infringes on the patent, Sahner said. Vonage is the largest independent VoIP provider in the United States. While it continues to assure customers that the service remains reliable throughout the legal wranglings, the company has seen a decline in new customers. In its second quarter this year, Vonage added 57,000 customer lines, compared with 256,000 in the same quarter in the previous year. Still, Sahner emphasized that the future is bright for Vonage. The company has the cash to pay for the Sprint case, if it fails in appeal, Sahner said. "Vonage is here to stay," he said. "We want to be an alternative to the entrenched phone company and think it's important to have an alternative." This story was updated on September 26, 2007
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A federal jury on Thursday found that Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. had infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents and ordered Vonage to pay $58 million.
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AT&T Inc  has filed a patent  infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp ,  according to a Vonage regulatory filing on Friday, the latest  legal trouble for the Internet phone service provider.
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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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A judge suggested a possible compromise in a patent dispute between Internet phone carrier Vonage and Verizon Communications that would allow Vonage to continue signing up new customers while it modifies its technologies.
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Vonage is getting sued--again. This time telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks says the company has violated nine patents related to its Internet phone service.
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NEW YORK - Vonage Holdings Corp., the beleaguered provider of Internet-based phone service, said yesterday it has settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications Inc. for a maximum of $120 million.
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Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. said yesterday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple's use of the "iPhone" name for its new iPod-cellular phone gadget.
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Annus horribilis ends with Nortel agreement Vonage and Nortel have agreed to settle their patent differences with an exchange of licenses, and no money changing hands, ending a year of litigation for Vonage and clearing the decks before 2008.â¦
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A federal jury on Thursday  found that Vonage Holdings Corp. , an Internet phone  service, infringed on three key patents owned by Verizon  Communications Inc.