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"You hear about a number of patent infringement lawsuits in this job, unsurprisingly few cases result in a decent sum being awarded.\r\n\r\nIn this case however that is not the case. VirnetX Holding Corp, a realtime communications security technology firm is\u00A0on the winning end of suing Microsoft for patent infringement and Microsoft is coughing up a hefty $200 million.\r\n\r\nVirnetX claimed that Microsoft used two of its US patents, specifically a virtual private network technology used in Microsoft's Windows and Office communication server products.\r\n\r\nTechEye reports that in March of this year, a jury suggested that Microsoft pay out $105.8 million for infringing on the private network VirnetX technology. However, VirnetX went a step further in the same month and alleged infringement of the patents in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.\r\n\r\nThe result, VirnetX receives a total of $200 million and Microsoft will obtain a license to the VirnetX patents for its products.\r\n\r\nThis might be pocket change to Microsoft but for VirnetX it's a big win that see's its share price double to hit $7.49."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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