Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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But we are not talking about physical products with this company, we are talking about a process and even if a company was using the technology previously without a patent, it might have been a trade secret but it still does not make a claim for prior art.

Unfortunately, you are trying to compare apples to oranges, it doesn't work.

In addition, the term that is used in the event of a product being sold to the public would be "patent pending" if one chose to release it prior to any approval by a patent office, but again, that does not apply per se here. Even if Skype or Vonage was using this technology, broad scope or not relative to VOIP, if they held it close to their chest as a trade secret, that does not constitute prior art, and that is the ball game we are in here, period...AIMOFOYSFM!