After a decade-long legal battle, the Supreme Court has sided with Apple by denying a bid from VirnetX to revive a $503 million patent case. This decision ends the prolonged dispute over FaceTime, VPN, and iMessage patents, with the Federal Circuit ruling in favor of Apple. President Biden's representatives from the Patent Office also supported Apple, urging the justices to reject the case, while VirnetX complained about the former patent office interim director's decisions.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's decision to overturn a $502.8 million jury verdict in favor of VirnetX against Apple in a patent dispute over internet-security patents. The dispute, which has spanned 14 years, involved challenges to the validity of VirnetX's patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The board's decisions to invalidate the patents were upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, prompting VirnetX to appeal to the Supreme Court. Apple and the Biden administration opposed VirnetX's appeal, arguing that it lacked support under federal law.
Apple has successfully appealed against a $502 million verdict for patent licensing company VirnetX in a long-standing legal battle over internet privacy technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the verdict could not stand after the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board canceled the virtual private network (VPN) patents VirnetX accused Apple of infringing. The two companies have been fighting over VirnetX's patents for 13 years, with several trials and appeals.
Apple has won an appeals verdict in its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit with VirnetX, which could save it from having to pay $502.8 million in fees. The US Court of Appeals confirmed a ruling by the US Patent and Trademark Office invalidating a pair of patents that VirnetX used in its lawsuit against Apple. With the patents now invalidated, VirnetX and Apple will again meet in court over the initial appeals case that Apple filed to determine whether Apple will need to pay up, and it's looking like the $502.8 million verdict will be thrown out.
Apple has won an appeal against patent licensing company VirnetX in a decade-long battle over patent infringement. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by the US Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate patents related to FaceTime, VPN, and iMessage services. The patents were deemed invalid "in light of earlier publications that described the same inventions." The decision is expected to negate an initial $502m verdict against Apple, handing the tech giant a victory over VirnetX.
Apple has won an appeal in a US court that upheld a patent tribunal's ruling invalidating two patents that VirnetX had accused Apple of infringing. The decision could jeopardize a $502m verdict for patent licensing company VirnetX in its long-running fight with Apple over privacy-software technology. VirnetX is considering seeking a rehearing or appealing to the US Supreme Court. The two companies have been in a 13-year court battle that has included several trials and appeals.
