Rates Technology, a little-known patent-holding company with a history of filing suits against large technology companies, said it will seek $5 billion in damages from Google based on unpaid royalties from a patent infringement lawsuit RTI filed against Google in New York. RTI is suing Google in U.S. District Court in New York’s Eastern District for infringement of patent 5,425,085, which governs the routing of VoIP calls in Google Talk, a VoIP and instant-messaging application. RTI, based in Smithtown, New York, is also suing Google based on another patent, 5,519,769, which relates to inventions for minimizing the cost of telephone calls. The company is seeking an injunction against Google for all commercial activity pertaining to Google Talk. "We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously,” said Google spokesman Steve Langdon. In the past two years several companies, including network equipment suppliers, software developers, and application services companies, have added VoIP capabilities. So basic is RTI’s VoIP-routing patent that hundreds of companies could be subject to legal action from RTI.

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