VoIP-Pal Must Face Twitter’s Preemptive Suit on Gateway Patents

July 25, 2022, 6:45 PM UTC

Twitter Inc. can move forward with its lawsuit seeking a declaration that its products and services with messaging involving text, images, and videos don’t infringe two VoIP-Pal.com Inc. patents related to a mobile gateway, a California federal judge ruled.

Judge James Donato, in an opinion issued July 22 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, denied VoIP-Pal’s motion to dismiss the preemptive suit. He said VoIP-Pal’s other suits in the Western District of Texas—against companies including Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Amazon, Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and WhatsApp units, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and ...

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