RTI Sues Google for Voice Service Patent Friday, December 30, 2005 NEW YORK — Rates Technology Inc., which holds patents for the process by which most Internet phone calls are made, confirmed Friday that it is suing Google Inc. (GOOG) over its Web-based phone calling system. New York-based RTI said it estimated that damages from the lawsuit could reach $5 billion, assuming the litigation process takes four years as the market for Internet-based phone services booms. "Ordinarily we don't need to sue people to get them covered under our patents," RTI President Jerry Weinberger told Reuters. "Every once in a while we run into utter arrogance." ...
I was just translating the same from a Dutch newspaper article. You beat me by just a couple of minutes