An East Texas jury has ruled that Apple must pay patent-holding company VirnetX $ 625.6 million for infringing four patents. It's a massive verdict for VirnetX, a company that has no products and makes its money solely through patent litigation.
The verdict form (PDF) shows the jury found Apple infringed on every patent claim that was at...
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A patent trial has just kicked off in the patent hotspot of East Texas, and it's a big one. VirnetX, a patent-holding company that says it owns wide-ranging rights to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), is facing off against Apple.
VirnetX says that Apple's VPN technology, as well as its Facetime video-messaging, both infringe the company's...
