Vonage and AT&T settle patent dispute
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Digital phone service Vonage   said on Friday it has settled a patent dispute with AT&T .
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Promises to side-step its way out, again VoIP provider Vonage has lost another patent battle, this time with Sprint Nextel, which owns six infringed patents and stands to gain almost $70m in a court-ordered payout.â¦
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Vonage Holdings Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. have settled their patent litigation, allowing for cross-licensing of the telecom companies' technology.
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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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By Justin Hyde WASHINGTON  - AT&T Corp.  and Internet telephoneprovider Vonage said on Thursday they were cutting prices fortheir residential Internet calling services by $5 per month,the strongest signs yet of a price war in the nascent market.
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By Bloomberg News. The AT&amp;T Corporation, the nation&#39;s biggest long-distance telephone company, said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit by shareholders who claimed the carrier had lied about its finances.
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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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AT&amp;T Wireless and AT&amp;T Corp. have resolved a dispute over branding and reached a new agreement ahead of Cingular Wireless&#39; planned purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless, the three companies said Monday.
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An appeals court agreed that Vonage infringed on two Verizon patents but sent the case for retrial regarding a third patent.
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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 ruled that VoIP provider Vonage Holdings Corp. infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel Corp.
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Vonage Holdings Corp., the beleaguered provider of Internet-based telephone service, said Thursday it has settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications Inc. for a maximum of $120 million.
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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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Settlement is latest in a string of patent cases against Internet phone company. Vonage has settled disputes with Sprint, Verizon in recent months.
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VoIP provider Vonage and Nortel Networks are coming close to a settlement in their patent dispute.
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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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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¦