This week I told you that a company called VirnetX won in an American court a lawsuit against Apple and that 368 million dollars must be paid by the company from Cupertino for the unauthorized use of certain technologies. FaceTime is the main system discussed, and now VirnetX acted again Apple in court, the new trial based on the same claims, the same patents, but the new Apple products are being discussed.
The complaint includes allegations of willful patent infringement regarding four patents owned by VirnetX, US Patent Nos. 6,502,135, 7,418,504, 7,921,211 and 7,490,151. In its complaint, VirnetX seeks both damages and injunctive relief. The accused products include the iPhone 5, iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPad 4th Generation, iPad mini, and the latest Macintosh computers. Due to their release dates, these products were not included in the previous lawsuit that concluded with a Jury verdict on November 6, 2012.
iPhone 5, iPad Mini, iPod Touch 5G, iPad 4 and the new Macs were not part of the original process, so a new one has been started by VirnetX, and it could cost Apple hundreds of millions of dollars. If the first lawsuit was won, there are good chances that the second one will follow the same course because it is unlikely that Apple used different technologies, licensed from someone else. The process will probably last several months and if Apple does not agree with VirnetX, then it will probably lose it.
