Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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Seems it's time for the annual reminder thats sooo needed about the IPRs.

The IPRs were not WINS, are not WINS & never will be WINS...

Had the challengers won their challenge against the validity of the patents involved, THAT would've indeed been a LOSS! No bout-a-doubt-it. But since the challenges were not accepted, they were not wins for vplm... I fully understand how some view them as wins, but technically, they were not because vplm gained nothing.

In order to win something, you need to be able to show something for it that you did not have before the the contested thing. In the case of the IPRs, the outcome equates to nothing gained nothing lost. In other words, after the IPRs were over, vplm had exactly what they had before. In fact, not just what they had before, but what they had from the genesis of ea patent challenged (when the patent was 1st awarded).

Nothing ADDITIONAL was given to vplm after the IPR decisions. After the trials, vplm had exactly what they had to begin with, nothing more, nothing less.

To be fair, it had been pointed out that along with the IPR decisions, came the added value of Estoppel, however with all the subsequent cases that have came & went since, estoppel has ever been used to my knowledge & so the fact remains that nothing more than bragging rights was ever borne from the IPRs.

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