Teles obtains US patent also for VoIP telephony method http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/65126 They are already involved in a lawsuit in germany over their patent there, now that they have a US patent expect lawsuits in the US as well. This just adds to the "about 100 patents on VoIP" that sprint-nextel has, and sprint-nextels willingness to sue. Course sprint-nextel cant do boost mobile services anymore becuase prepaid mobile service is patented. What goes around comes around, and its all insane. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051019/a9f724f6/attachment.pgp
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:49 -0700, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:> Teles obtains US patent also for VoIP telephony method > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/65126 > > They are already involved in a lawsuit in germany over their patent > there, now that they have a US patent expect lawsuits in the US as > well. > > This just adds to the "about 100 patents on VoIP" that sprint-nextel > has, and sprint-nextels willingness to sue. Course sprint-nextel cant > do boost mobile services anymore becuase prepaid mobile service is > patented. What goes around comes around, and its all insane.Have a look at this article http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005101916522254 Some of the comments are interesting. With any luck the US will patent itself into a corner. -- Dave Cotton <dcotton@linuxautrement.com>
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:28 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:> Have a look at this article > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005101916522254 > > Some of the comments are interesting. > > With any luck the US will patent itself into a corner. > >Yup its insane, with that ruling it wouldnt be hard for someone to patent basically the selling of VoIP, forcing all small players under (or pay a license fee) and the large ones to either negotiate or pay large sums in court. This just gives me one more reason to leave, as if I didnt have enough already. I am just waiting for my lawsuit to be settled so I can escape. It sucks in America, its only getting worse (the patent stuff is just one more reason) and it wont change untill congress has more independants elected in. 66% of congress being of like mind and independant could change a lot of the sillyness like this patent issue, but you will never see that. 66% can stop any filibuster, 66% can overrule any veto, 66% can do a lot really quick. We only need 2 years of that (the house has 2 year terms). As long as the patent office is the way it is though I need to get on to filing my patent on a time displaced communications system (receive messages before they are sent, all the components are proven already just not stable :) -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051020/cb996288/attachment.pgp