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« on: February 08, 2010, 07:19:38 PM »

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020610-patent-office-to-review-voip.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2010-02-08

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In 2006, C2 sued all the major U.S. carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and Qwest, alleging they were infringing the patent. All the carriers settled out of court with one-time payments, according to Weintraub. C2 believes many more companies are violating the patent, as well as another VoIP-related patent owned by C2. Its patents cover most of the technology used in VoIP, though not all VoIP products may infringe them, he said.

That's dirtier than AT&T itself Shocked
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 09:34:30 PM »

Patent squatters. And the problem is clearly listed at the end of that article: patent office is just too overwhelmed and not smart enough to be up on all of this stuff and do it right.

Good for the EFF.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 09:42:06 PM »

I just might make this t-shirt: "Dumb and overwhelmed"  ROFLMAO
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 01:59:15 PM »

I just might make this t-shirt: "Dumb and overwhelmed"  ROFLMAO

Lol.. put me down for one!
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2010, 02:52:19 PM »

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