Vonage Holdings Corp. to review the Verizon patent appeal

Vonage Holdings Corp. to review the Verizon patent appeal

Vonage Holdings Corp . has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its recent decision to uphold most of patent infringement ruling, in one case of lost to Verizon Communications.

Internet phone companies are characterized by request a "logical next step" in the course of the proceedings, and "we move forward the development of enterprises."

The firm also continued to struggle, "explore all legal options, the rest of the Verizon litigation ," Chief Legal Officer Sharon o'leary said in a statement Wednesday.

May mean that another out-and-out-of-court settlement, is on the horizon » Earlier this week, Vonage companies resolved the patent dispute with Sprint Nextel to transfer 80 million U.S. dollars. Development has just arrived weeks later, a federal jury ordered Vonage to pay 69.5 million U.S. dollars of voice Internet Protocol 6 of the patent.

In late September, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the jury's findings, Vonage Holdings Corp . earlier this year, Verizon violated two patents, it seems that this is the way is crucial, Internet phone company's service works. (Vonage company has maintained it has a feasible option, this is not violated, but some analysts said, Verizon may be the challenge, the restoration of these assumptions, as well as).

The choice of the Court of Appeal's decision to send infringing on the rest of the patent, which was considered equally important to Vonage's products back to lower court for a new trial. The court also threw a 58 million U.S. dollars on the judgement of Vonage , because the jury did not specify how the damage will be divvied among the three patent issues.