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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Picking a phone system for the office

29th June, 2017 · oppedahl · 3 Comments

These days, the way to go if you are picking a new telephone system is a system based upon Asterisk, which is open-source software providing a PBX for SIP telephones service.  If you have a legacy telephone system, it may make sense to retire the legacy system and to move to a SIP-based system.  I will explain. Continue reading →

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What about the security of SIP (VOIP) communications?

28th June, 2017 · oppedahl · 3 Comments

Recently I blogged with a recommendation that readers migrate their $40 or $55 per month landlines to VOIP lines that cost as little as 85¢ per month.  In response, alert reader and Portuguese and European patent attorney Luís Ferreira asked:

What about security? SIP communications are not normally encrypted?

His questions are good questions.  Here are a few partial answers.

Continue reading →

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Reducing the cost of four telephone lines from $160 per month to 85¢ per month

27th June, 2017 · oppedahl · 9 Comments

We reduced our firm’s $160 per month phone bill for four telephone lines to 85¢ per month. Continue reading →

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Picking a VOIP analog telephone adapter

27th June, 2017 · oppedahl · Leave a comment

CLockwise from top left: Ooma, Vonage, Cisco, Magicjack, Obihai

If you are going to use VOIP (which probably you should do, since it is the wave of the future), you might need one or more ATAs (analog telephone adapters).  If so, this article offers my recommendation of which one to pick.

Continue reading →

Posted in Office Tech |

Reluctant to migrate from PCT-SAFE to ePCT?

2nd June, 2017 · oppedahl · 4 Comments

A colleague at a very well known patent firm asks this:

Some of our clients (a few very large, sophisticated patent clients) refuse to let us move from PCT-Safe to ePCT for their matters since they claim the ePCT servers are located outside the US and that, at a minimum, a foreign-filing license would first be required prior to filing.  Do you have any related experiences with clients?  If so, how did you address their concerns?

First let me offer a compliment to those companies.  It is really good that they think about the FFL issue.  A company (or a practitioner) that fails to pay attention to FFL issues can really run into trouble later. Continue reading →

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