Apple To Pay $500M For Patent Infringement

A jury in Texas has ordered the mobile company leader, Apple to pay $502.8 million for infringing on the software company’s VirnetX patent.

As per Bloomberg’s report, the patent infringement applies to unpaid royalties for VPN on Demand taht is a service that enables the users to connect to a VPN via iPhone or iPad.

VirnetX had claimed for $700 million, while, Apple asserted for $113 million, based on 19 cents in compensation per unit. However, the jury’s final decision ended up at 84 cents per unit.

Earlier, Apple was ordered to pay $440 million to VirnetX with regard to a dispute over communication security technology. The two firms have been in legal disputes since a decade.

Additionally, in August a Chinese firm tried to ban all Apple products from sale (excluding Apple Pencil) based on alleged patent infringements.

This article originally appeared in Macworld Sweden.

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