Matrix Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 What just happened? Apple is no stranger to lengthy legal disputes, but even by the company's standards, its decade-long patent infringement battle with VirnetX is starting to drag on. However, and end to one chapter of this saga finally at hand: Apple has been ordered to pay VirnetX a whopping $502.8 million in royalties for allegedly infringing upon VirnetX's technology patents through iOS' VPN on Demand feature. As we said, this case -- or, more specifically, this legal battle -- goes back more than 10 years, to August 11, 2010. There's been quite a bit of back-and-forth between the two companies over the years, but an appeals court has finally ruled in VirnetX's favor, much to Apple's disappointment. After roughly 90 minutes of deliberation, according to Bloomberg, the Texas-based court arrived at the $502.8 million figure, which is certainly great news for VirnetX, albeit still a lower sum than they'd hoped for. Initially, VirnetX was shooting for around $700 million in royalties, whereas Apple felt it should have to pay no more than $113 million. For context, at this point, there's not really a question of Apple's guilt -- that verdict had already been reached. Today's court decision only relates to the amount that Apple has to pay. "We thank the jury for their time and appreciate their consideration but are disappointed with the verdict and plan to appeal," an Apple spokesperson said... Obviously, Apple is not pleased with this outcome, and understandably so: right or wrong, $500 million is certainly quite a bit more than the $100 million-and-change payout it was hoping to get away with. "We thank the jury for their time and appreciate their consideration but are disappointed with the verdict and plan to appeal," an Apple spokesperson said to Bloomberg in a prepared statement. "This case has been going on for over a decade, with patents that are unrelated to the core operations of our products and have been found to be invalid by the patent office. Cases like this only serve to stifle innovation and harm consumers." Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosy Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 At last, they are told to pay for the service. They don't pay any taxes in Ireland, what a shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Steve Job stole everything from xerox anyway Then Microsoft stole quicklime then they settled with Microsoft all Apple got out of it was Bill Gates buying $150 million dollars in stock Microsoft fanboys try to act like he saved apple by doing that but in reality Apple was holding $1.2 billion in cash at the time, $150 million was a relatively small sum of money. Apple got there Money back from them though with a cross-licensing” arrangement for Office. but that $150 million dollars in stock Bill gates has now is worth a lot of money now he still has it also some features in XP was stole from apple. After they made XP most people said good bye to apple and there snotty fanboys now Mac OS is the only desktop in years were has had gains in the market thanks to Windows 10 every year they less and less windows users every since 2015.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 "allegedly infringing" court did the research and gave the final verdict and made the decision, and the post still says "allegedly" lol it's not allegedly, it's not a claim, it is a fact and that patent violation happened and apple is guilty. that's why they are paying half a Billion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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