Battery of VoIP patents issued recently
Here come the patent attorneys. BusinessWeek is noticing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been issuing dozens of VoIP patents lately–maybe 100 in the last couple of months alone. We haven’t had a chance to look at, well, any of them, but beneficiaries include Texas Instruments, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Nortel, Broadcomm, AOL and DoCoMo. The magazine suggests that the current bumper crop makes sense, given that VoIP began to hit mainstream radar screens in 2004. It takes a year or so for a patent to wend its way through the bureaucracy.
For more information about recent patent awards:
- read this article from BusinessWeek
Also: Comcast recently dodged the patent lawyer bullet.