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Article: Judge issues injunction to bar Vonage from signing new customers using Verizon patents
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A judge issued an injunction Friday that would
bar Internet phone carrier Vonage from signing up new customers as
punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications
Inc.
Vonage Holdings Corp. planned an immediate appeal.
The company's lawyers argued that the compromise injunction
issued by U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton would be almost as
devastating as ordering Vonage to cut off service to its 2.2 million
existing customers.
"It's the difference of cutting off oxygen as opposed to the
bullet in the head," Vonage lawyer Roger Warin said.
The judge had initially planned to issue a full injunction that
would have barred Vonage from using the ...