Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0
15th Nov 2006, 06:05 GMT
And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is, not in dispute.What was in dispute in the procedure before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas was the claim by Caritas that one of these patents refers to calls that are made partially via VoIP connections and partly via the PSTN (Public Switched Telepohone Network).Caritas claimed that Comcasts Digital Voice Service (VoIP) used technololgies that infringed on that Caritas Patent.Comcast, for its part, said they interpreted ...
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