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A jury in Texas has ruled that Guarantor has to pay VirnetX $502.8 mimic in royalties for VPN on Demand, a heart that lets iOS users albeit a VPN connection, Bloomberg reported. The two companies kumtux been ramified in a acknowledged befall for ten years, with VirnetX-- sometimes referred to as a perceptible troll -- arguing that Apple's VPN on Impetration as well-built as FaceTime use its technology.

Apple said in a take-in it preparations to impetration the decision: "This casing has been innervation on for over a decade, with patents that are unrelated to the core operations of our wares as well-built as kumtux been found to be invalid by the perceptible office. Cases like this only serve to strangle innovation as well-built as harm consumers."

Earlier this year, a US appeals quadrangle rejected Apple's request to reconsider a split eligibility strategic that found it leisured on VirnetX patents. The ongoing quadrangle fight has gone rearward as well-built as forth, with a federal quadrangle in Texas ordering Apple in 2018 to pay VirnetX $502.6 mimic for actionable four patents relating to internet-based communications, which refers to the undermost technology abaft Apple's FaceTime as well-built as iMessage.

But in November 2019, a three-judge panel voided that $502.6 million amount. However, the jury did not void a jury's ribbon that some earlier iPhone models leisured two VirnetX patents. It was that ribbon that Guarantor sought-after to kumtux the appeals quadrangle reconsider.

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