Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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Not the way I recall it...
I dont think 50 companies were notified & I don't think 50 companies were told they were in violation of patents...

The way I remember it, approx 50 companies were named by vplm & posted on their website & very soon thereafter those names were all removed. Why, I don't know, but I remember it happened & my guess would be that vplm was violating some kind of law by posting those names & had to remove them. Maybe, maybe not, but that's certainly how it looked to me at the time.

Additionally, I remember there was a longtime push, here, for vplm to send infringement letters out. There were many calls for that but it didn't happen for a long time. Some were calling vplm a coward for not sending out such infringement letters. I remember this clearly. Finally, after a very long time, we were notified that some, a very few, a small number of letters went out & in fact, those letters were posted on the vplm website & when read, I characterized them as "love letters", as they simply informed the few companies that "they MAY BE infringing & need to take a look at it. As I recall, there were also a few responses posted, which in every case, they told vplm they were not infringing & were not interested in entertaining any such claims & basically told vplm to go pound salt.

And to my knowledge & memory, no other letters of infringment were ever sent out!

I would be very much interested in seeing anything to contradict the above. Nor do I believe it generated any negotiations whatsoever.

I would love to see someone give a good reason why vplm quickly retracted those 50 or so named companies from their website.