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Title: News: Apple ordered to pay $302.4M over FaceTime patents
Post by: HCK on October 03, 2016, 04:05:26 pm
News: Apple ordered to pay $302.4M over FaceTime patents

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               Apple has been ordered to pay $302.4 million in damages after losing another round in its years-long legal fight with patent holder VirnetX, Reuters reports. In 2012, a jury awarded VirnetX $368.2 million in damages over Apple’s use of its patented security technology in the company’s FaceTime app, but an appeals court overturned the verdict over issues with how the damages were calculated. A second trial upped those damages to $625.6…

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