(2007-04-09) Vonage Verizon Voip Patents

Verizon has some Patent-s applicable to VoIP. Om Malik thinks they're Business Method Patent-s and not very innovative/defensible.

They're trying to shut down Vonage, though that hasn't happened yet.

• Vonage had said they could work around the patents, but that seems to have been bull.

Nov16 update: Vonage lost their appeal (or, rather, the appeals court refused to even hear it), and has to pay $120M. The Holmdel, New Jersey-based company said yesterday that it may not have enough money to pay $253.5 million in debt due as early as December 2008. Vonage, which generated cash of $22.5 million in the third quarter, will try to restructure the debt.