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After winning a $200 million patent infringement settlement from Microsoft, VPN technology company is expanding its legal fusillade to include other technology giants: the company has filed suit in the patent holder-friendly Eastern Texas U.S. District Court against a series of companies for infringing on its VPN patents. The named defendants in the suit are Apple, Cisco, NEC, and Aastra. The suit alleges the companies infringe on five… Read More

After a Texas jury ordered Microsoft to pay over $100 million to VirnetX for infringing on patents related to virtual private network (VPN) technology in Windows, Microsoft has announced it will be paying VirnetX some $200 million to settle two lawsuits between the companies over the technology. Under the deal, the $200 million payment will be a one-time thing, but Microsoft says other components of the deal will not be disclosed, so… Read More

On the heels of dealing Microsoft a $106 million patent defeat over VPN technologies included in Windows XP and Windows Vista (Microsoft plans to appeal), holding company VirnetX has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against the Redmond software giant, how alleging the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 violate patents on the same VPN technology. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 weren't included in the original lawsuit because… Read More

A jury in the patent holder-friendly district of Tyler, Texas, has found Microsoft Corporation guilty of willful infringement on virtual private network (VPN) patents held by VirnetX, and ordered the company to pay $105.6 million in damages. Because the court found the infringement to be willful, the judge in the case could treble the damage award. VirnetX brought the suit against Microsoft in 2007, and was originally seeking some $242 million… Read More

California software company VirnetX Inc. has files suit against Microsoft Corporation, alleging the software giant's VPN technologies infringe on two VirnetX patents, one of which describes a method for establishing a secure communications link, and the other describes transparently creating a virtual private network. VirnetX's suit seeks both injunctive relief and damages; the suit was filed in the patent holder-friendly United… Read More