The agreement involves a limited cross license to three Nortel and three Vonage patents.
Earlier this month, Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel filed a lawsuit against Vonage claiming it violated nine patents related to Internet phone services and related features such as 911 and 411 calling, and click to call.
At the time the suit was filed a Nortel spokesman said the lawsuit countered claims made by Vonage that Nortel had violated three of its patents.
Vonage Holdings entered the legal battle after it acquired three patents from Digital Packet Licensing last year, a Vonage spokesman said at the time.
Digital Packet Licensing filed a suit against Nortel in 2004, alleging violation of those three patents, so Vonage continued with the lawsuit.
Vonage has settled 3 other patent lawsuits this year with Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T. The lawsuits had been plaguing Vonage and made existing and prospective customer leery of Vonage’s ability to remain in business in the long term, especially after VoIP provider SunRocket suddenly shut down its service this past summer and left its customers without service.
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