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- Apple ordered to pay $625m for infringing Facetime and iMessage patents
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday, 4 February 2016
This past week has seen some major ups and downs for Apple. After it was overtaken by Alphabet as the world’s most valuable company, it regained the top spot one day later. It also has to cough up more than half a billion dollars for patent infringement. A Texas jury has ruled that Apple must pay $625.6 million to VirnetX, a patent troll that has no products in the market and has won against the iPhone maker in court before. The jury found that Apple infringed four patents relating to its iMessage, FaceTime and VPN on Demand services. VirnetX previously…
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