Apple pays VirnetX $454 million in patent infringement case
Apple has officially paid VirnetX just over $450 million in its long-running patent infringement battle with the company.
Apple has officially paid VirnetX just over $450 million in its long-running patent infringement battle with the company.
Apple won’t have its appeal heard by the United States Supreme Court related to one of its patent fights with VirnetX, this one worth $440 million.
A U.S. Court of Appeals has denied Apple’s request for a rehearing in one of its patent infringement battles against VirnetX.
A U.S. appeals court has vacated VirnetX’s $503 million patent win against Apple, with mixed results for Apple.
A U.S. appeals court has upheld a judgement against Apple worth $440 million, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied the iPhone-maker’s request to throw out the 2016 jury verdict, which found it guilty of infringing on patents belonging to VirnetX.
The total amount Apple is ordered to pay up is $440 million as the per-device royalty rate was upped by fifty percent.
In February 2016, a federal jury ordered that Apple pay $625 million to VirnetX Holding Corp after being found guilty of willfully infringing on technologies found in VirnetX’s patents related to virtual private networking protocols. Friday, the judge voided that ruling after determining that the case should be revisited, CNBC reports. VirnetX alleges that its patented technology is used in FaceTime and iMessage on the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Apple has been ordered by a federal jury in east Texas to pay $625 million for patent infringement, Reuters reported late Wednesday. The jury found the iPhone maker guilty of using VirnetX’s security technology without its permission.
More specifically, Apple was found guilty of willfully infringing on technology found in VirnetX Holding Corp’s patents related to virtual private networking protocols, which Apple uses in its FaceTime and iMessage apps on iPhone and iPad.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today denied five petitions for so-called inter partes review filed by Apple, which sought to challenged the validity of certain claims of three of VirnetX’s U.S. patents at stake.
The patent board has determined that the five petitions were not filed within the time limit imposed by the statute and therefore has declined to institute review of these claims between the parties involved.