Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

[pickered]

The infringing companies don't have to steal the implementation of the technology to infringe on the patent.

If I own a patent involving widgets, then the patent could be as much about the process of making or implementing the widget. It doesn't have to be a physical thing.

In VPLM case, for instance, the function to consider, decipher and operate upon additional caller context data to decide routing of a call to external network, for a given call, seems like a patentable idea that would not require the infringers to steal actual code which implemented said patent.

I am not an attorney.
I am not a patent expert.
I do have much software expertise.