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Rates Technology (RTI) is in the process of suing Google for $5 Billion in damages.

RTI has had a history of sueing large companies, and yet RTI really does not seem to be much of a company, they mostly just hold basic patents and sue larger companies.

The lawsuit is over Google Talk, Chat software that also uses VoIP technology that RTI says infringes on their patent.

Since VoIP technology has grown so popular in the last few years, RTI has lawsuits pending with other VoIP companies like:

RTI is even talking about sueing eBay over their Skype service.

No one can really find much out about RTI and VoIP and it seems their only involvement was getting these basic patents that they can sue larger companies with. In my mind this is just sick, as its just people trying to hit large companies up for money.

But getting a court to enforce the patent could be a challenge for RTI, so we will have to keep watching to see what happens.

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