[VoIP] Vonage vs Verizon

[Greg Blakely]

It looks like Vonage is finally trying to assert the "obviousness" of
the ip-to-pstn lookup technology.  But it may be a day late and a dollar
short.  Verizon is claiming that the "obviousness" case that Vonage is
citing in its appeal was already decided by the time that Vonage and
Verizon were in court, and that, if Vonage wanted to assert that the
patent should never have been granted because the procedure was obvious
to those in the know of those sorts of things, they should have done it
at trial, and failed to do so.
 
Whether Vonage pulls out of this or not, it is apparent that the
obviousness of ENUM lookups will make it tough for Verizon to go after
other voip providers.
 
The full story is at
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3679581.