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AOL Settles VoIP Voicemail Lawsuit with KlausnerTMCnet Contributing Editor Klausner Technologies announced on Tuesday that it granted a patent license to AOL which will allow the Internet service provider to continue providing its AOL Voicemail and VoIP voicemail services. Klausner settled its lawsuit against AOL for infringement of US Patent No. 5,572,576.
Klausner had filed suit against AOL back in June 2005. The company was seeking $200 million in damages and royalties. Klausner sued AOL for violating the company's intellectual property rights. Specifically, AOL was being sued for offering services in which subscribers receive visual notice of new voice messages, including caller ID info, and can selectively retrieve voice messages using their displays. "AOL's voicemail services, now licensed under our patents, are an excellent example of our technology and its importance to the now burgeoning VoIP voice services which let consumers view and select their voicemails in the same way they view and select e-mails," said Judah Klausner in a statement.
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