{"id":267,"date":"2006-06-05T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/05\/skype-latest-victim-of-patent-suit\/"},"modified":"2006-06-05T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:41:56","slug":"skype-latest-victim-of-patent-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/05\/skype-latest-victim-of-patent-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype latest victim of patent suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newark-based internet telephony company, <strong>Net2Phone <\/strong>has taken on <strong>eBay <\/strong>and its subsidiary peer-to-peer VoIP provider <strong>Skype <\/strong>in a lawsuit, alleging that <strong>Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that Skype infringed a patent filed by Net2Phone under US Patent Class 704, which broadly covers <strong>data processing encompassing speech signal processing, linguisitics, language translation, and audio compression\/decompression.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like other law suits filed recently against big name companies with deep pockets, the <strong>Net2Phone <\/strong>suit is going for broke, seeking damages and an injunction against further infringement, which would basically mean <strong>shutting the Skype service down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com.au\/content\/view\/4510\/53\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newark-based internet telephony company, Net2Phone has taken on eBay and its subsidiary peer-to-peer VoIP provider Skype in a lawsuit, alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net. The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that Skype infringed a patent filed by Net2Phone under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}