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Quick! Who Else Has A VoIP Patent That Vonage Can Settle Over?

We've covered in too much detail how it's some sort of "open season" on Vonage when it comes to VoIP patents. After dealing with ridiculous and expensive patent lawsuits from companies who failed to actually innovate in the same way Vonage did, the company was pressured by Wall Street to quickly settle the various patent lawsuits filed against the company. Of course, rather than settle matters, that simply opened the door for other companies to go searching through their patent portfolios to see if there was anything they could sue Vonage over. Indeed, following those settlements it didn't take long for AT&T to dig up a patent and sue -- which was quickly settled as well. Thought things were over? No such luck. Nortel just showed up last month to sue and it took all of about a week and a half for Vonage to settle that case as well.

The Nortel case is slightly different because Vonage actually already had a patent infringement lawsuit going against Nortel, but it wasn't really initiated by Vonage. Instead, it had been initiated by a patent holding firm that Vonage bought in 2006. The end result of the settlement doesn't involve money changing hands, but just a cross licensing agreement for the patents. So what's the big lesson that Vonage and others have learned from this? It's certainly got nothing to do with innovating. It's to hoard as many patents as possible so that you have your own nuclear stockpile for when someone else sues you. Want to know why the USPTO is overwhelmed? It's not because there aren't enough examiners (as some will claim) or that there aren't enough funds. It's because the way the system now works is that you are supposed to file patents on every tiny little advancement so you can use it to protect yourself against lawsuits from everyone else. That's not about innovation. It's about waste. In the meantime, since it's still open season at Vonage, who's going to be next? There are a ton of other patents in the VoIP space that can surely be used in a lawsuit, right?

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Wolverine Omnibus Volume 1 HC

par: Barry Windsor-Smith, Carl Potts, Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Peter David, Mary Jo Duffy, James C. Owlsley
par: John Buscema, Barry Windsor-Smith, Herb Trimpe, Todd McFarlane, Ken Landgraf, Frank Miller, Gene Colan, Al Milgrom, Mark Bright, Carl Potts, Jim Lee

All Star Batman & Robin

par: Frank Miller, Jim Lee

Frank Miller's Sin City: That Yellow Bastard 2nd Edition

par: Frank Miller
par: Frank Miller

Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back 2nd Edition

par: Frank Miller
par: Frank Miller

Frank Miller's Robocop

par: Frank Miller
par: Juan Jose Ryp

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye 2nd Edition

par: Frank Miller
par: Frank Miller

Daredevil By Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Volume 1 TPB

par: Frank Miller, Bill Mantlo, Marv Wolfman, Roger McKenzie, David Michelinie
par: Frank Miller, Klaus Janson

Frank Miller's Sin City: Family Values 2nd Edition

par: Frank Miller
par: Frank Miller

Daredevil By Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Volume 2 TPB

par: Frank Miller, Roger McKenzie
par: Frank Miller, Klaus Janson