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Article: Vonage Ordered To Pay Verizon In Patent Case
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 9, 2007
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A federal jury in Alexandria yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings,
an Internet telephone company, to pay $58 million to Verizon
Communications for infringing its patents in a case that raised the
possibility that Vonage could be barred from conducting much of its
business.
Verizon asked the court yesterday to issue a permanent injunction
preventing Vonage from using the technology for connecting its
Internet network to the public telephone system. If the order is
granted, Vonage's 2.2 million customers could be limited to using
the service to communicate only with one another. A federal judge
has scheduled a March 23 hearing on Verizon's request.
Vonage's phone calls run over high-speed ...