Vonage In the News
Source: www.voip-news.com
Vonage and the phrase legal wrangling just seem to go hand in hand, lately don’t they? This time, the topic is the Verizon and Vonage patent trial. From Techdirt, “Vonage is clearly trying to use the Supreme Court’s new ruling on patent obviousness to get Verizon’s patents tossed out. Vonage lost in its request to have a retrial at the district court level, but they’re still using the new Supreme Court rules at the appeals court. However, Verizon is claiming that this is unfair and that since Vonage didn’t bring up these issues at the lower court level it can’t use the new obviousness test in the appeals court either. It is true that the appeals court is supposed to focus on the arguments that were made at the lower court, but the situation gets trickier when the fundamental rules have changed in between the cases. Still, it’s amusing to have Verizon claiming that Vonage should have known about this new obviousness ruling before the Supreme Court even made the ruling.”
Want more? You can read the rest of the entry right here. Who was it that said there’s no such thing as bad publicity? PT Barnum maybe?
