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Vonage Hit By $58m Payout To Verizon
News Internet phone provider Vonage has been ordered to pay $58m to Verizon Communications for infringing on three of the company's patents. The monetary damages and the ongoing royalties awarded to Verizon could have a significant impact on Vonage, if...
[March 9, 2007, 7:44]
Vonage Seeks Retrial In Verizon Patent Case
News A pivotal US Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to challenge obvious patents prompted Vonage on Tuesday to ask for a new trial in an ongoing dispute with Verizon. In a court motion obtained by ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com...
[May 2, 2007, 8:15]
Vonage And Verizon Prepare For Court
News Verizon filed suit against Vonage in June claiming the company violated several of its patents. This means that if Verizon wins, Vonage could be forced to shut down its service, unless it can develop a workaround that does not violate the patents.
[February 21, 2007, 9:02]
Verizon Sues Vonage For VoIP Patent Infringement
News On Monday, less than a month after the company's disappointing debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Vonage acknowledged that Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the United States, has filed a lawsuit charging that Vonage infringed on...
[June 20, 2006, 9:50]
Court Denies Vonage Request For Retrial
News In March, a jury found that Vonage had infringed three patents owned by Verizon, the second largest phone company in the US. Specifically, Vonage did not argue in its Tuesday motion that the patents it was found to have infringed were obvious and...
[May 4, 2007, 9:08]
Google, Verizon, Others Sued Over Voicemail Patent
News A patent-holding company that has won settlements from Apple, AT&T and others sued Google, Verizon and a handful of other companies on Tuesday for allegedly infringing on patents related to voicemail, according to a report from Reuters.
[August 27, 2008, 9:05]
Vonage Gets Last-minute Lifeline
News According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has signed a deal with a wholesaler of VoIP services called Voiceone, owned by a company called VoIP Inc, that could provide it with a workaround for at least two...
[April 4, 2007, 8:57]
Vonage In Legal Bid To Continue Signing Customers
News Meanwhile, Verizon will argue that if a stay is allowed to remain in place, Vonage will continue infringing its patents, perpetuating further damage. The company has also said that it is working on an alternative technical solution to avoid...
[April 24, 2007, 16:17]
Vonage Wins Reprieve Over Customer Sign-up
News The saga dates back to June, when Verizon filed suit, originally accusing its internet phone rival of infringing on seven patents. A federal jury on 8 March decided that New Jersey-based Vonage had infringed on three of the five Verizon patents...
[April 25, 2007, 8:52]
Vonage And Verizon Go Head-to-head In Court
News Under questioning by Vonage attorney Roger Warin, Holder also said Verizon never approached Vonage about possible violation of its patents until it filed suit last June. The broader dispute rests on allegations by Verizon that features central to...
[February 28, 2007, 8:17]
Broadcom, Verizon Wireless Agree 3G Phone Deal
News The deal will also give Verizon Wireless the right to use six Broadcom patents that are currently being litigated between Broadcom and Qualcomm. Broadcom has found a way around its rival Qualcomm in its effort to earn royalties for a patent which...
[July 20, 2007, 11:39]
Vonage Faces More Patent Claims
News Then, in June, Verizon Communications filed suit against the company, claiming it had infringed on seven patents that describe technology for completing phone calls between Voice over IP (VoIP) users and people using phones on the traditional...
[July 11, 2006, 9:55]
Why Research In Motion Won't Blink
News If they continue their fight beyond us -- and they said that they would -- they are basically granted a monopoly and it won't be much longer until they extend this patent fight to the carriers and handset vendors like Cingular, Sprint and Verizon.
[June 24, 2005, 11:05]
BlackBerry Users Hit By Outage
News Several customers with Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Sprint's Nextel service reported delays, outages and problems with their BlackBerry Internet Service, or BIS, starting early this week and continuing through Wednesday.
[March 16, 2006, 8:35]
Vonage On Verge Of Patent Fix
News In March, a jury in Virginia found Vonage had infringed on three patents held by Verizon Communications. Citron said the new technology, which will provide a workaround to the first two patents that describe how IP addresses are mapped to telephone...
[May 11, 2007, 11:14]
Broadcom Warns Bush Over Qualcomm Chip Veto
News As a result, the ITC banned the import of phones using the Qualcomm chips — devices which are sold by major operators such as Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless. In May Broadcom won a major patent infringement case against Qualcomm in which the US...
[July 9, 2007, 14:33]
Nokia Links Two Networks With One Modem
News But most major carriers -- including Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Sprint PCS -- have all indicated they intend to add 802.11b into their mix of offerings, analysts say. But the cards won't work for Verizon Wireless customers.
[March 18, 2002, 11:22]
Networks Of Light Build On Cellphone Tech
News Some mobile phone systems, such as those from Sprint PCS and Verizon Communications, already use a type of CDMA for radio waves, according to the researchers. Qualcomm owns the patents. The University of California at Davis announced this week it...
[November 27, 2002, 15:57]
Peace Breaks Out In RIM-Palm Conflict
News Palm has not yet decided to include BlackBerry connect on Microsoft Windows-based Palm devices, Fabris said, such as the one announced by Palm, Microsoft and Verizon in September 2005. RIM is currently appealing a 2002 judgment that found the...
[October 17, 2005, 16:55]
BlackBerry Delays Hamper RIM's Growth
News The 8700 was from Cingular in the US and from Rogers Wireless in Canada; the 7130 model was from Verizon. Lawyers for NTP accused RIM on Monday of a steady stream of delay tactics and court disruptions to wait out NTP's patents, which expire in 2012.
[November 24, 2005, 8:55]
