Litigation
VirnetX Inc. et al. v. Apple Inc.
active6:12-cv-00855-LED (consolidating 6:11-cv-00563-LED)
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- Filed
- 2012-11-06
Patents at issue (8)
Defendants (1)
Summary
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.
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