relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message virnetx nyse mkt vhc is a company founded by former engineers and executives from science applications international corporation saic which developed security technology for the department of homeland security and other federal agencies . these resulted in patentable technologies which secure lte communications . some call virnetx a patent troll 1 2 because they expanded their patent portfolio beyond the original four internet security patents to include more than 100 related patents thus securing their position as a leader in mobile security technology and based on the fact that the majority of their employees are lawyers and they have yet to commercialize any of their patents in commercial products . the company has over 80 internet security patents worldwide and 100 patents pending . 3 contents 1 patents 2 stock 3 references 4 external links patents edit the company s patent portfolio includes u.s. and international patents in areas such as dns and network communication . since 2010 virnetx has been in litigation with companies including apple cisco and microsoft . 4 separately in december 2014 microsoft and virnetx settled patent disputes over skype technology for 23 million . 5 in their apple case virnetx worked together with saic 6 and was awarded 368 million in damages for facetime infringement . 7 that ruling was partially vacated on 8 19 2014 but two patents were confirmed to be infringed by the united states court of appeals for the federal circuit . 8 in december 2014 virnetx opened access to their gabriel platform which builds upon their patents and is implemented as small to medium sized business enterprise collaboration software . 9 emails from apple s engineering staff indicated that they knew they were violating various patents . apple has appealed rulings against it in state and federal courts and demanded a jury trial for the virtnetx case . in february 2016 an east texas jury unanimously ruled in federal court that apple had willfully violated 13 virnetx patents . the jury said apple must pay virnetx 625.6 million for infringing four of the patents and the court was considering ongoing royalty rates and punitive damages . 10 at apple s request the ruling was vacated in august 2016 and the case sent back to be retried separating the patents into two groups . virnetx has filed an injunction to block sales of facetime and imessage claiming that its own platforms are suffering . the first retrial conducted sept 26 sept 30 2016 resulted in another unanimous jury verdict for virnetx . 11 the verdict re affirmed patent violations enabling facetime and imessage and awarded 302 million to virnetx . the remaining 2 patents will be tried separately stock edit virnetx stock is traded on the nyse under symbol vhc . references edit phelps marshall . an innovation jason bourne would love . how virnetx beat apple the strange case of the patent trolls . virnetx bolsters . retrieved 4 aug 2014 . company virnetx . armental richard . virnetx microsoft settle patent dispute over skype . wsj . smith gina . who is virnetx apple to pay 368 million to ibm nsa cia who . a new domain . retrieved 27 april 2013 . bell killian . u.s. court orders apple to pay 368 million damages for facetime patent infringement . techcrunch . retrieved 4 aug 2014 . pdf https web.archive.org web 20150522201411 http www.cafc.uscourts.gov images stories opinions orders 13 1489 . opinion .9 12 2014.1.pdf . archived from the original pdf on may 22 2015 . retrieved september 19 2014 . missing or empty title help virnetx opens gabriel beta program . virnetx . joe mullin jury apple must pay 626 million to patent troll virnetx ars technica february 4 2016 andrew liptak 1 the verge october 1 2016 external links edit virnetx official webpage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title virnetx & oldid 742434089 categories companies listed on nyse mkthidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsnpov disputes from october 2016all npov disputes navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 17 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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