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Following up on its $80 million settlement from its Vonage lawsuit last year, Sprint is milking its 115 VoIP patents by suing NuVox Communications, Broadvox Holdings, Big River Telephone and Paetec Communications. The carrier claims the four companies are violating six of its patents and is seeking both damages and an injunction. Reportedly, Sprint did not try to negotiate a licensing agreement with any of the companies before filing the lawsuit. GigaOM quipped that Sprint may see patent litigation as an easier means to cashflow than its much needed corporate turnaround.
For more on the suits:
- read this report from GigaOM
Comments
Posted by stevetel | January 26, 2008 - 12:50am
sounds like the carriers are totally freaked out...and they need to be. I guess we are lucky we have the courts to settle these questions...in other countries, they deal with issues like this by just bringing in dozers to knock down the towers of competitors.
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