Apple has been ordered to pay $302.4 million in damages after losing another round in its years-long legal fight with patent holder VirnetX, Reuters reports. In 2012, a jury awarded VirnetX $368.2 million in damages over Apple’s use of its patented security technology in the company’s FaceTime app, but an appeals court overturned the verdict over issues with how the damages were calculated.
A second trial upped those damages to $625.6 million, but another judge threw out that verdict as well, after expressing concerns that jurors may have been confused by repeated references to the earlier trial. Apple declined to comment on the case, but the company faces yet another court proceeding to determine if it willfully infringed on the patents, which could lead to higher damages.
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