The ruling was made by a federal jury in Texas, who ruled that Apple's FaceTime and other functions infringed on VirnetX's four patents and ordered Apple to compensate VirnetX with US$502.6 million.
The patent infringement case between Apple and VirnetX has lasted eight years. It has been started since 2010. VirnetX accused Apple of FaceTime. VPN on Demand and iMessage infringed on their four patents related to communication security, but Apple This denies it.
In the dispute that lasted eight years, different courts have also made multiple rulings. A ruling of 2016 required Apple to compensate US$302 million. In October 2017, a jury in Texas decided to increase the amount of compensation to 4.397 billion U.S. dollars.
After the Texas federal jury ruled that Apple FaceTime and other functional infringements and compensate VirnetX $ 502.6 million, VirnetX CEO Kendall Larsen published his views on this decision, he said that the compensation amount is based on more than 400 million The evidence made by Apple devices is also clear.