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Patent squatter loses $625 million win against Apple

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jules Wang

VirnetX will have to face Apple in court twice again. Yes, twice.A judge from Eastern Texas District Court overturned a ruling in a patent infringement case that would have resulted in Apple paying VirnetX $626.5 million in damages because the trial was a conflation of two lawsuits.Instructions and information to jurors kept referring to the findings of the jury looking over the earlier of the two cases which sided against Apple. The patents at issue regarded security measures found in FaceTime and ...

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Another patent squatter wins $25 million against Apple

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Jules Wang

Another loss for Apple and another court day spent successfully for a patent holding company.Network-1 Technologies subsidiary Mirror World Technologies has agreed to settle with Apple for $25 million in exchange for the use of nine patents and five pending applications regarding “unified search, indexing, displaying and archiving of documents in the computer system.” The settlement was made out of district court in Tyler, Texas.The main patent in question described a file directory system. ...

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Apple owes $626 million in damages to patent holding company

Posted on February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 by Jules Wang

The saga between VirnetX and Apple has been running since about the start of the decade. It’s now come to a blow against Cupertino.The Arizona-based patent holding company has successfully argued that Apple infringed four of its patents concerning VPN and FaceTime interfaces. An attorney for VirnetX said that the award was “well-deserved” while an Apple representative said “cases like this simply reinforce the desperate need for patent reform.”Apple requested for the judge to ...

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Xiaomi Mi 5 release challenged with patent suit

Posted on December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 by Jules Wang

China might be an industrial galaxy of sharing, caring and cannibalizing intellectual property, be it freely distributed or stolen from its rightful owners. But when a company that filed 45 lawsuits based on a vaguely-worded patent in 2012 comes back biting for more in late 2015 with Xiaomi on the verge of a product release … well, it’s not really that exciting.Blue Spike, LLC has ...

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