Vonage says to appeal verdict on Sprint patents
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Vonage Holdings Corp  said on  Tuesday that it will appeal a U.S. jury verdict that it  willfully infringed patents belonging to Sprint Nextel Corp   and that it pay $69.5 million in damages.
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a verdict that Vonage Holdings Corp  infringed two patents held by Verizon Communications Inc .
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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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A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday, but struck down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for further proceedings.
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A jury ruled that Vonage violated three Verizon patents, dealing a blow to a company already showing signs of stress.
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Internet-based calling company Vonage  Holdings Corp.  said on Thursday that it settled a patent  dispute with Verizon Communications Inc .
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A federal jury in Alexandria yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings, an Internet telephone company, to pay $58 million to Verizon Communications for infringing its patents in a case that raised the possibility that Vonage could be barred from conducting much of its business.
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Companies say they have "resolved" dispute over three voice over Internet protocol patents. Precise amount of settlement depends on whether appeals court agrees to review case.
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A federal jury on  Wednesday began reviewing evidence in Verizon Communications  Inc's $197 million patent infringement case against Internet  phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp..
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(InfoWorld) - A federal court ruled on Tuesday that struggling VoIP provider Vonage infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel. Jurors in the U.S. District Court in Kansas found that Vonage willfully infringed on Sprint's patents as part of its VoIP service, Vonage said. The jury awarded Sprint $69.5 million in damages, which amounts to 5 percent of Vonage's revenue during the infringing period. Vonage plans to initially ask the court to set aside the verdict, but if that fails, the company will appeal the decision. In the meantime, Vonage will also develop workarounds that don't require Sprint's patents, it said. This is the second legal blow to Vonage this year. A court found earlier this year thatÂ Vonage infringed on Verizon patents. That case came with an injunction that would have prevented Vonage from signing up new customers.Â Vonage won a stay of that injunctionÂ and is appealing the original infringement ruling. Although it's clearly bad news for Vonage to have two patent infringement rulings against it this year, the appeals could change everything, said Seth Ostrow, a partner specializing in patents in Dreier LLP. "Often there are mistakes made during various stages of a case that form the basis for a successful appeal, and that, coupled with the statistics, gives reason to think that Vonage has a significant chance of getting this changed," he said. Statistics show that patent cases often get changed on appeal, he said. In August, Vonage said it had nearly completed rolling out workarounds for two of the three patents claimed by Verizon. Still, the Verizon case alone appears to have slowed growth for the company, the largest independent VoIP provider. In its second quarter this year, Vonage added 57,000 customer lines, compared with 256,000 in the same quarter in the previous year. Vonage has said that Verizon pursued the lawsuit in an effort to eliminate a competitor. Vonage stock opened the day at $1.99 and closed at $1.20, a 33 percent drop. This story was updated on September 25, 2007
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A federal court rules that struggling VoIP provider Vonage Holdings infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.
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A federal jury yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether the troubled Internet phone company could survive.
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia  - A federal jury on Thursday found that Vonage Holdings Corp. , an Internet phone service, infringed on three key patents owned by Verizon Communications Inc.
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Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes has said it will appeal a federal jury ruling in the United States that it had allegedly infringed two of LG Philips LCD Co's (LPL) patents.
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Digital phone service Vonage   said on Friday it has settled a patent dispute with AT&T .
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Top online auctioneer  eBay Inc  said on Wednesday it would appeal a U.S.  court ruling in a patent dispute with MercExchange LLC.
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Mining company, Harmony, is to appeal against today&#39;s Competition Appeal Court ruling interdicting it from exercising voting rights it got from buying shares in its competitor Gold Fields.