Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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Exceptionally strong.

What the defendants (apple, et al).. continually fail to acknowledge in their arguments is that patents are not validated against today's standards of practice, technology or what would "now" be considered obvious - BUT RATHER - what the standards of those things were back at the time of invention.

We forget how quickly VOIP and progresses in technology have occurred over the past decade or so.

I recall my very first experience with VOIP. It was necessary for one to have a special device, and for the person one wanted to call to ALSO have that special device. Then, and only then could the call be routed over the computer. The concept, rules and application of creating a routing system that identified different types of callers, different types of devices, different ways that each individual circumstance needed to be handled in order to both connect, and also account for, log and potentially bill for those calls in order to monetize the system was ANYTHING but obvious, and most certainly was not in common use at the time of invention.

Nice Try Defendants. You already had your day in court (17 months worth) with the PTAB, and failed to make your point. Why now, would you believe that simply dragging out the same old tired strategy before the District Court will produce new results???