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"<p align=\"left\">An East Texas jury recently hit Apple Inc. with a $368.2 million judgment in a patent infringement case.</p><br /><br /><p align=\"left\">VirnetX, a patent licensing company, successfully sued the computer giant in the Eastern District of Texas-Tyler Division alleging Apple infringed on four of its patents covering the use of a domain-name service to set up virtual private networks.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">On Nov. 4, the jury in U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis&rsquo;s court found that Apple infringed the patents through the FaceTime technology it uses to allow Mac computer users to make video calls to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">VirnetX had originally sought $708 million from Apple, but received a little over half that amount in the verdict.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">Doug Cawley, a McCool Smith attorney representing VirnetX, said he would likely seek a court order to stop Apple from using the patented technology, according to an article in Bloomberg.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">Apple has maintained that FaceTime uses different technology than VirnetX&rsquo;s and claims VirnetX&rsquo;s patents are invalid.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">Apple is represented in part by Danny Williams of Williams, Morgan and Amerson in Houston.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">VirnetX won a huge award in 2010 over similar claims it made against Microsoft, which it sued in 2007 alleging Microsoft Office Communicator and Windows Meeting Space infringed its patents. A jury awarded VirnetX $106 million. Microsoft appealed, but later settled with VirnetX for $200 million.</p><br /><p align=\"left\">It has cases pending against Cisco, Avaya and Siemens, which may go to trial in March, according to an article in Bloomberg.</p><br /><p align=\"left\"><em>Case No. 6:10-cv-417</em></p>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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