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Article: Vonage barred from signups
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp.
will be barred from signing up new customers as punishment for
infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., under an
injunction ordered Friday.
The injunction was to take effect Thursday, but the company was
granted a temporary stay from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit in Washington, D.C., which will allow Vonage to sign up new
customers until the court rules on its appeal.
The order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton is
less severe than the punishment he initially proposed -- a blanket
injunction that might have disrupted phone service for all 2.2
million of Vonage's existing customers.