Net2Phone Files Patent Suit Against Skype
June 05, 2006 | by Geoff Duncan
Net2Phone is seeking damages and an injunction against VOIP leader Skype, saying the eBay unit infringes on a Net2Phone patent.
Seems like everyone wants a piece of the VoIP pie: Net2Phone, the newly-acquired Internet telephone division of IDT, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in new jersey against VoIP giant Skype, itself recently acquired by online auction firm eBay. At issue: Net2Phone claims Skype's VoIP technology infringes against a patent granted Net2Phone in August 2000. The patent concerns the exchange of IP addresses to establish data links between Internet-connected systems.
Net2Phone is seeking an injunction against Skype's Internet-based phone service and unspecified damages.
Net2Phone's parent company IDT primarily provides centralized voice telephony solutions for cable companies and telco providers; Skype, conversely, provider peer-to-peer end-user VoIP telephony applications.
The lawsuit marks the second recent legal tussle faced by Skype: the company is also facing a suit from StreamCast Networks which claims Skype Founders Niklas Zennström and Jaaqnus Friis—who also helped launch files-sharing service Kazaa—sold technology to eBay as part of its Skype acquisition which was supposed to have been sold to StreamCast.
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Gary on Jun 5th, 2006 at 10:38 AM:
Net2Phone has been around forever, but just because their product never really took off shouldn't mean they have to be poor sports about it.