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Article: Vonage Wins Stay in Verizon Dispute
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Vonage Holdings, the
leading Internet telephone provider, can continue doing business as
usual while it seeks to overturn a lower-court ruling that it
violated three patents belonging to Verizon Communications.
Roger Warin, an attorney for Vonage, told the court that the
company faced a "real risk of insolvency" if barred from selling its
service to new customers, as a lower court ordered earlier this
month. He asked the three-judge panel to extend an emergency
reprieve allowing the company to continue adding new customers.
Less than two hours later, the appeals court ruled in favor of
Vonage and scheduled a June 25 hearing on the appeal itself.