Packet 8 Patents

Source: saunderslog.com

PR Newswire is carrying the 8Г—8 (EGHT) release about their new patent this morning, which Andy Abramson commented on yesterday.  The headline reads “8Г—8 Awarded Patent for Hosted IP-PBX Technology”, which is causing some confusion and a few howls of outrage.  The key word in that headline is “technology”, as it appears, upon reading the patent, that 8Г—8 has been awarded rights to some implementation methodologies for hosted IP PBXs.  The crux of it seems to be the application of object oriented programming technologies to the control and management of an IP PBX. 

I’m just a lowly geek, not a lawyer, but I do confess to being mystified at the idea that a common technique for decomposing and coding solutions is somehow patentable when applied to the domain of telephony. If these patents are upheld, however, they could have a chilling effect on a lot of innovation in this space.

Published on June 15th, 2006 under

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