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Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on from the made-their-play-got-what-they-wanted dept.

Tackhead writes: Having won a $200M judgement against Microsoft in 2010, lost a $258M appeal against Cisco in 2013, and having beaten Apple for $368M in 2012, only to see the verdict overturned in 2014, patent troll VirnetX is back in the news, having been awarded $626M in damages arising from the 2012 Facetime patent infringement case against Apple.

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  1. Greed. The oldest profession by geekmux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Only in America can "Patent Troll" become a legal multi-billion dollar industry, and yet prostitution remains illegal.

    How ironic, since both are in the business of fucking people.