Apple has been ordered by a Texas judge to pay $302 million in damages for using another company’s patented security technology.
According to Reuters, VirnetX Holding Corp brought the suit against Apple, claiming Apple has been using their security software in features like FaceTime without permission.
The case was first launched in 2010, with a jury originally awarding VirnetX $368.2 million in 2012. However, that verdict was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals, ruling that the trial judge mishandled calculating instructions to the jurors.
VirnetX was later awarded a whooping! $625.6 million in 2015. But Judge Robert Schroeder voided that result, saying that references to the earlier case could have confused the jurors, thus putting Apple at a disadvantage.
This time around, jurors were asked to calculate damages for two patents Apple had already been found to have infringed upon, as well as to determine Apple’s culpability and damages for allegedly using two other VirnetX patents.
Apple CEO Tim Cook must be looking like this right now.
According to Reuters, VirnetX Holding Corp brought the suit against Apple, claiming Apple has been using their security software in features like FaceTime without permission.
The case was first launched in 2010, with a jury originally awarding VirnetX $368.2 million in 2012. However, that verdict was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals, ruling that the trial judge mishandled calculating instructions to the jurors.
VirnetX was later awarded a whooping! $625.6 million in 2015. But Judge Robert Schroeder voided that result, saying that references to the earlier case could have confused the jurors, thus putting Apple at a disadvantage.
This time around, jurors were asked to calculate damages for two patents Apple had already been found to have infringed upon, as well as to determine Apple’s culpability and damages for allegedly using two other VirnetX patents.
Apple CEO Tim Cook must be looking like this right now.
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