Posts Tagged with ‘patents’

It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers. The Russian company “Era Vodoleya” (translated into English as “The Age of Aquarius”) claims that they patented the technology involved in contextual advertising a year before Google began using this technology.
The CEO of the Russian company told to the Russian CNews branch (in Russian) that [...]

I actually hoped there was nothing to sue Google for any more because everyone who wanted to must have already filed their lawsuits but today’s news proves that I was wrong. Today GraphOn announced that the company had filed a lawsuit against Google in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement.
GraphOn claims that Google infringes 4 out of the company’s 23 patents. The patents in question cover GraphOn’s “unique method of maintaining an automated and network-accessible database” and are [...]

It’s the Neverending Story. Part Deux. Literally.
As we all well know, it’s never honorable to kick a horse (or, in this case, a feeble, stunted pony) while it’s down, but like a wreck on the side of the road, we can’t help but look on, even when we know the fight’s not being had between two equals. So it’s with such conflicting feelings that we bring you word that the American VoIP company, Vonage, was hit last week with yet [...]

If you weren’t convinced by our last piece on Vonage that the VoIP company is headed down, down, down, maybe this next bit of news will bring you around and help you see the truth. Just hours (okay, days) after Vonage was told to pay Sprint for stepping on the latter party’s patents, the press revealed that the small-fry pariah of the US telecom industry had also managed to lose out its appeal of the judgment concerning its very public [...]

Fighting the telecom behemoth that is Verizon has been mighty tough for little US VoIP provider Vonage. Now there’s yet another force the struggling company has had reckon with in court.
Boy, it almost makes you want to offer up some pity, or at least a shoulder to cry on.
According to news reports issued yesterday, Vonage has been ordered by a federal jury to hand over restitution in the form of $69.5 million to Sprint for infringing on six [...]