Patent dispute over VPN function costs Apple dearly

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Apple’s first $454 million payment to Virnet X is probably not enough. The dispute is about the license fees for the „VPN on Demand“ function. Now another 500 million US dollars are to flow.
1.1 billion US dollars from Apple
The patent dispute between Apple and Virnet X has been going on for more than a decade. Now the topic seems to be slowly through. The renewed request for another trial by Apple was rejected by a US court. In addition, the recent verdict of jury was confirmed. The attempt by Apple to overturn the verdict has thus failed. According to this, the company is to pay another $ 500 million in royalties to Virnet X (VirnetX vs. Apple, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, case number 6:12-cv-00855). Apple already had to pay $454 million to Virnet X after losing another case in March of last year. So far, the lawsuit has cost the company $1.1 billion. The Supreme Court has not yet wanted to deal with the dispute between the companies, although this path is...

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