Another judgment has actually boiled down in Apple’s years-long legal fight with VirnetX.
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Apple on Tuesday was bought to pay $5026 million to VirnetX HoldingCorp after a grand jury in Texas discovered that the iPhone maker infringed patents connected to protect interactions, according to Bloomberg.
The judgment is the current in an 8-year-old legal fight in between Apple and VirnetX, a business that makes the majority of its cash from licensing trademarked innovation that develops virtual personal networks online. VirnetX submitted a trio of suits in 2010 declaring that Apple’s FaceTime, VPN on Demand and iMessage includes infringed 4 VirnetX patents.
A decision in February 2016 bought Apple to pay VirnetX $6256 million in damages after 2 suits were integrated. But in August of that year, a federal judge voided the decision, stating that integrating 2 suits into a single trial puzzled the jurors and was unreasonable toApple He ruled that both cases required to be attempted individually.
In October 2017, a federal judge in Texas granted VirtnetX $4397 million in damages– almost $140 million greater than the $3024 million Apple was bought to pay VirtnetX a year previously in yet another trial.
VirtnetX representative Greg Wood called the decision “fair and appropriate,” however the judgment might eventually have little effect as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled the patents void in 2016.
Apple agents didn’t react to an ask for remark.
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