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A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple to pay more than $302 million in damages for utilizing VirnetX Holding Corp's licensed web security innovation without consent in elements including its FaceTime video conferencing application. The decision arrived in another trial in Tyler, Texas that had been ordered by the judge for the situation, Robert Schroeder, who last August tossed out VirnetX's $625.6 million win over Apple from a past trial since he said jurors may have been confounded.
VirnetX and Apple have been battling over patents for quite a long time. The case started in 2010 when VirnetX, a Nevada-based patent licensor, documented suit in the Eastern District of Texas government court, asserting encroachment of four licenses for secure systems, known as virtual private systems, and secure communications links.
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A jury in 2012 granted $368.2 million in harms, yet the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., partly overturned that decision, saying there were issues with how the trial judge instructed jurors on calculating damages. On remand, VirnetX's two suits were consolidated, and in February, a jury came back with a significantly bigger decision, $625.6 million, one of the highest ever in a U.S. patent case. However, Schroeder later voided the outcome, saying that the rehashed references to the before case could have confused jurors and were unfair to Apple.
In the most recent trial, members of the jury were requested that decide harms on two VirnetX licenses that Apple had as of now been found to encroach, and to decide both encroachments and harm on another two licenses. The $302.4 million award was in accordance with what VirnetX had been requesting. Apple representative Rachel Tulley declined to remark. A lawyer for VirnetX couldn't immediately be reached. As indicated by court archives, Apple is to confront another court continuing about whether it stubbornly encroached the licenses, which could prompt higher harms.
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Apple will likewise need to fight with the trial in the second lawsuit claim VirnetX documented against Apple over newer versions of Apple security highlights, and additionally its iMessage application. Numerous patent cases are taken care of in the Texas court, which has a reputation for awarding favorable verdicts to plaintiffs alleging infringement. VirnetX had been allocated the four licenses by Science Applications International Corp in 2006, court papers show.
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