Volume IV

Issue : 13: June 19, 2006

• Teen Sues MySpace.com for Failure of the Website to Protect Her Against Sexual Predator
• Verizon Sues Vonage for Patent Infringement
• Media Watchdog Protests Defamation Verdict
• Stanford Scholar Sues James Joyces Estate Over "Fair Use" of Authors Work
• Court Finds SPAM Filter Malfunction No Excuse for Attorneys Failure to Meet Filing Deadline
• Paramount Sues Filmmaker Over 12 Minute Internet Version of Soon To Be Released "World Trade Center" Film
• Louisiana Videogame Law Put on Hold
• Court of Appeals Confirms Microsoft Infringed Patent

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Verizon Sues Vonage for Patent Infringement

Verizon Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp. on June 12, claiming that Vonage is infringing patent rights that Verizon has on the technology for making phone calls over the Internet, so called voice over Internet protocol or VoIP.

Verizon’s complaint charges that Vonage is infringing at least seven of Verizon’s patents including inventions related to gateway interfaces between a packet-switched and circuit-switched network, billing and fraud detection, call services such as call forwarding and voicemail, and methods related to Wi-Fi handset use in a VoIP network. Vonage has responded that its services have been developed with its own proprietary technology and technology licensed from third parties.

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