Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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With the paradigm shifts they can be credited with, they had to have an extensive prior art search just to fight the USPTO for the patents - and that process really is a battle. I have done it myself many times.

Even if other people came up with similar ideas and put them in public domain, the proof of first inventorship wins and can claim against everyone else.

EG. Tesla and Marconi - Tesla actually invented radio communications and eventually prevailed in court just before his murder. But to this day, public belief and History generally refer to Marconi.