8504697

3 known cases. View patent page →

Cases
3
Active
1
2 closed
Filed
2012–2013
Top venue
E.D. Texas Tyler
2 cases

Filing activity

2012: 1 case'122013: 2 cases2'13
Cases asserting US Patent 8504697 filed per year.

VirnetX Inc. et al. v. Apple Inc.

active
Docket:
6:12-cv-00855-LED (consolidating 6:11-cv-00563-LED)
Filed:
2012-11-06

VirnetX and SAIC asserted patents against Apple over iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen., iPad 4th gen., iPad mini, and then-current Macs. The case was consolidated with 6:11-cv-00563 and later amended to add 8,051,181 and 8,504,697. It produced the 2016 retrial on the '504/'211 patents and the April 2018 trial on the '135/'759/'180/'151 patents; further post-trial/appellate proceedings continued into the 2020s.

VirnetX Inc. v. Apple Inc.

closed; consolidated with 6:12-cv-00855
Docket:
6:13-cv-00581
Filed:
2013-08-05
Terminated:
2013-08-29
Patents:8504697

VirnetX's district court action against Apple in E.D. Tex. The '697 patent was added by amended complaint on 2013-08-27 alleging willful infringement and seeking damages and injunctive relief. The action closed on 2013-08-29 and was swept into or consolidated with the Apple II case, 6:12-cv-00855; no verdict was reached on the '697 patent.

Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc.

Final Written Decision; claims unpatentable
Docket:
IPR2014-00237
Filed:
2013-12-06
Terminated:
2015-05-11
Patents:8504697

Apple petitioned for inter partes review of the '697 patent. The PTAB instituted review and issued a final written decision on 2015-05-11 finding claims 1–11, 14–25, and 28–30 unpatentable over Wesinger (US 5,898,830) and RFC 2543 (SIP). This was the alternative ground.