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Things just went from “really bad” to “oh man that sucks” for Vonage. The VoIP provider is requesting a permanent stay on Judge Claude Hilton’s decision in the Verizon patent suite, which decrees that Vonage can’t sign up any new customers until it figures out a way to provide them service that doesn’t infringe upon Verizon’s patents. Vonage had already been granted a temporary stay, saying that they’d drum up a workaround, but this new request is much more pessimistic, saying that because Verizon’s patents are so broad, such technology would take months to develop, “if even feasible.” The unlucky company is making a bit of a pity play as well, saying that even if it “was somehow able to implement a design around, and was able to ultimately prevail on appeal, it would have no hope of regaining its lost customers, or its lost goodwill, and its loss of revenue would be permanent and…” Oddly, the statement cuts out there, because the rest of it was redacted as “confidential material.” The whole Vonage statement is in fact riddled with such holes, making it hard to figure out exactly what’s going on — other than the fact that Vonage doesn’t like its chances of building a workaround. No mention of that VoIP Inc. safety net either, but perhaps Vonage still thinks it has a shot at doing this the old fashioned way.
[Via GigaOM]
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