Can anything be proved here that would give Vonage a get out of jail free card? Well, we're certainly not lawyers (we'll defer to the legally-inclined in our audience), but already this patent he-said she-said is smacking a bit of RIM and NTP's fracas, and we all know how ugly that wound up being for the BlackBerry maker.

This information is a actually an update to a post which dicusses Voange's pesimistic outlook about being able to find and implement a work around to the Verizon-patented technology.

I certainly hope that Verizon's patents are found to be based upon earlier open standards, and therefore unenforceable, but the madness of each of these tiny incremental changes in technology - sometimes as simple as a code rewrite - being considered an entirely new method or process deserving of patent protection.

Not only does Congress need to address the net neutrality issue in a big picture way, but the patent process and United States Patent and Trademark Office needs a thorough review to determine if their methods and processes are working as well as they should.