Apple must pay $302M to VirnetX after losing FaceTime patent retrial

After roughly six years of courtroom battles, a federal jury in Texas ruled that Apple had in fact infringed on patents held by VirnetX, a non-practicing entity, and ordered the Cupertino company to pay $302.4 million in damages. While Apple’s ongoing struggles with VirnetX began in 2010, this latest retrial ruled that the company’s FaceTime platform used the latter’s patented … Continue reading