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[IB Times] Apple Fined £230m ($367.7 Million) After Losing FaceTime Patent Lawsuit  

post #1 of 9
11/7/12 at 4:07pm
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Apple has been fined $368 million (£230m) after it lost a patent battle in Texas over its FaceTime app, after online communication company VirnetX accused the iPhone maker of breaching some of its patents.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/402444/20121107/apple-fined-facetime-patent-infringement-case.htm
post #2 of 9
11/7/12 at 4:10pm
Are these VirnetX guys another patent troll making their rounds, or do they actually sell products?
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11/7/12 at 4:14pm
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Are these VirnetX guys another patent troll making their rounds, or do they actually sell products?

Tiny one, but they do license out patents which Apple and Microsoft refused to pay for.
post #4 of 9
11/7/12 at 4:16pm
Don't care - make apple pay for patent trolling. smile.gif
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11/7/12 at 10:18pm
Sounds like the U.K. is the new place to debut your ideas. They apparently still look out for the little guy there.
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11/7/12 at 10:43pm
Didn't we have a combined thread for all patent related news/lawsuits?

EDIT: found it http://www.overclock.net/t/1313166/various-mobile-industry-lawsuits/0_30
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11/7/12 at 11:10pm
texas seems like the place for these type of patent companies. basically, the kind that don't produce new patents but buy the rights to the ones they think are valuable. on the one hand they're not doing anything wrong technically. on the other hand, they are basically not contributing anything to society
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11/8/12 at 12:18am
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Sounds like the U.K. is the new place to debut your ideas. They apparently still look out for the little guy there.
The company is based in Nevada and the trial was in Texas.
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post #9 of 9
11/8/12 at 2:12am
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Didn't we have a combined thread for all patent related news/lawsuits?
EDIT: found it http://www.overclock.net/t/1313166/various-mobile-industry-lawsuits/0_30
Yup merge this thread with that one please mods, if I see another "Apple patent trolls X" or "X patent trolls Apple" thread I'm going to explode. These lawsuits are becoming as regular and predictable as the freaking TIDES and need to be bottled-up in a single thread.
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