Vonage struck again as court partly upholds Verizon verdict

September 26th, 2007 | Category: Gadgets

When it rains, it pours. At least we’re pretty certain Vonage thinks so, as for the moment duration in as many days, the firm has been hit with terrible news on the legal front. Just a day after being ordered to pay Sprint a whopping $69.5 million for patent infringement, the VoIP provider is now hearing that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit “partially affirmed” the Verizon verdict from March. For those who have forgotten, that case

proclaimed that Vonage owed Verizon $58 million in addition to royalties on future revenue, but the appeals court did “direct the trial court to reconsider the verdict on one of the three patents and it vacated the damages and royalty awards.” Notably, the “injunction has been stayed pending resolution of Vonage’s appeal,” but it will go into effect within a month whether the outfit can’t secure an emergency stay from the US Supreme Court.