In the silent serial The Perils of Pauline, the end of each installment found the heroine in danger of imminent deathtied to train tracks or on a log heading for a saw. Rescued at the start of the next episode, Pauline could only take a few breaths before she was facing death in yet another guise.
Sounds like the adventures of Vonage this spring, right? The voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company was clearly threatened with extinction in March when a jury found that technology key to its business infringed three patents of Verizon Communications Inc. On March 23 the U.S. district court judge granted an injunction enjoining Vonage from using the patented Verizon technology, a sentence of death unless Vonage could find a work-around technology.
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