Apple's response was not long in coming and confirms the willingness to challenge the recent ruling. A spokesman for the company said: We are surprised and disappointed by the verdict and we will appeal. Our employees have designed this technology independently over many years and we have obtained patents to protect our intellectual property. All four VirnetX's patents have been deemed invalid by the Patent Office. Cases like this simply reinforce the desperate need to reform the discipline of patents.
It is correct to point out that no product integrated VirnetX has developed and distributed firsthand the technologies mentioned floundering. It is, in fact, a company that makes buying up patents and then put them to good usethrough lawsuits aimed at making it maintain the impairment. To put it briefly, as they say in slang, it is a patent troll. At the expense of usually large calibercompanies like Apple.
Virnetx had already attacked Apple in 2012 getting compensation of EUR 368million dollars and royalties equal to 1% of sales of the iPhone and iPad, rulinglater dismissed. Apple isn't the only company to end up in the crosshairs ofVirnetX, since Microsoft had to her 200 million in 2010 and $ 23 million in 2014for violating patents used in VoIP and messaging service Skype.
Does not appear out of place the food for thought contained in the statement by the spokesman for Apple that hopes for an acceleration in the process ofreform of patent law, in order to reduce or eliminate the phenomenon of patenttrolling. Apple, meanwhile, looms on the horizon an extra degree of judgementto enforce his own case against VirnetX.
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