Apple Loses Suit, Gets Sued Again - The UpStream

Apple Loses Suit, Gets Sued Again

posted Sunday Nov 11, 2012 by Scott Ertz

Apple Loses Suit, Gets Sued Again

This week, Apple lost a lawsuit filed by VirnetX regarding its FaceTime software and service, resulting in an order to pay $368 million. The suit alleged patent infringement regarding domain name security and VPN (virtual private network) implementation on its older handsets and devices. The suit, and subsequent win, however, was not enough for the company, as it has filed a new version of the lawsuit, shortly after winning the first award.

In fact, on the same day as the win, VirnetX filed an amended suit, including devices manufactured since the initial suit was filed, including the iPhone 5, 5th gen iPod Touch and iPad Mini, as well as all Mountain Lion-powered Macs. That is a lot of new devices all using unlicensed technology and, if the initial suit is any indication, this one will not cost them any less.

VirnetX is actually fairly well known in the tech space for the technology, having existing licensing deals with Aastra, Mitel Networks, NEC and Microsoft, following their own lost $200 million suit in 2010, as well as active and past suits against Avaya, Cisco and Siemens, with a trial set for the latter next year. Hopefully Siemens will be smart enough to work out a proper licensing deal before being subject to the same fate as Apple and Microsoft.

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