Apple Rebuffed by Supreme Court in $1 Billion VirnetX Dispute
- Supreme Court denies Apple petition over patent damages
- VirnetX, Apple have been in royalty battle for a decade
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by Apple Inc. as the iPhone maker seeks to avoid paying as much as $1 billion in patent damages to upstart software developer VirnetX Holding Corp.
VirnetX, a Nevada company with less than $2 million in annual revenue, has waged a decade-long fight to collect royalties from Apple for secure communications technology used in FaceTime and virtual private network programs on devices including the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.