Back in early December, 2010 j2 Global, the owners of eVoice, eFax, and Onebox, acquired Ottawa based Protus IP Solutions the provider of my1voice and MyFax. This was part of a big buying spree by j2 that landed them a total of eight new companies under the j2 Global umbrella. Mostly competitors of j2, and interestingly enough several companies such as Protus, that they had previously been in patent disputes with. The two companies were engaged in a five year legal battle, with j2 accusing Protus of infringing upon its internet faxing patents and of sending junk faxes to j2 customers. Protus eventually won patent disputes in both Europe and … [Read more...]