asterisk users - Feb 2008 - Fax-to-Email - Legal Issues

Hello everyone,

Some months ago there were news about J2 filing lawsuits against companies
using fax-to-email technology, as they claimed it was their patent. They had
also won some cases, until someone filed a counter lawsuit against them
based some other grounds but again related to fax-to-email.

Anybody knows what is latest in this regard? Can now fax-to-email be used
without fear of being sued.

-- 
Zeeshan A Zakaria
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Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Some months ago there were news about J2 filing lawsuits against 
> companies using fax-to-email technology, as they claimed it was their 
> patent. They had also won some cases, until someone filed a counter 
> lawsuit against them based some other grounds but again related to 
> fax-to-email.
>
> Anybody knows what is latest in this regard? Can now fax-to-email be 
> used without fear of being sued.
>
> -- 
> Zeeshan A Zakaria
The key site to look at it www.catchcurve.com. This is the name under 
which J2 troll their patents. If you look at the list of companies who 
paid up, you'll see most of the big names in telecoms. The patents 
actually suck, though. I didn't find a single patent of any substance. 
It remains to be seem whether things change in light of the recent 
SCOTUS ruling on obviousness.

Steve