Vonage Loses VoIP Case With Verizon 150
cdrudge writes "A federal jury on Thursday said Vonage Holdings Corp. violated 3 of 5 patents of Verizon Communications Inc. and ordered the upstart Internet-phone company to pay $58m in damages as well as 5.5% in royalty fees per month per customer. Verizon said it would seek an injunction to block Vonage from using its patented technology. The jury did reject Verizon's claim of $200m in damages and that Vonage deliberately violated Verizon's patents. As you might expect, Vonage said it would appeal the decision and seek a stay if an injunction is granted. Judge Claude Hilton set a hearing for March 23 on whether to grant an injunction."
Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The working system (Score:5, Funny)
So you see, EVERYTHING is different now. Duh.
Idiot journalist (Score:1, Funny)
Wow, 5.5% for each customer you say? With 2.2 million customers that works out to 12100000% per month! Seems a little harsh if you ask me!
5.5% per customer?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The working system (Score:4, Funny)
Works for me - haven't had to pay for bandwidth in over a year
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Spoken like a true
20 whole minutes on the phone per day? Unthinkable, why would the guy I order pizza from need to talk to me anywhere near that much?
And really, who else do we call?