[VoIP] (no subject)

[Greg Blakely]

I have the patent on precise dial tone.

I want all of you to stop using it unless you pay me usage fees.
Further, my claim for precise dial tone stems from my patents on the
older modulated dial tones that I also have patented.

So, please, folks, if you use dial tone, do the right thing and send me
money.  99 cents per call would be sufficient.  I'd really hate to get
into the whole "cease and desist" thing.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of John R. Covert
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:02 PM
> To: CNET
> Subject: [VoIP] (no subject)
> 
> If you haven't been following this, yesterday the judge 
> ordered Vonage to stop infringing the patents.  He found (as 
> Verizon had requested) that paying royalties would not be 
> sufficient to "prevent erosion of [Verizon's] customer base." 
>  Vonage must stop operating gateways from the Internet into 
> the PSTN.  The judge did not immediately sign his order and 
> scheduled another hearing for April 6th at which Vonage will 
> argue against the shutown.
> 
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