TYLER, Texas, Oct. 3, 2016
/PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Dallas' Caldwell Cassady & Curry have won
another multimillion-dollar patent infringement award for
Nevada-based VirnetX Holding Corp.
(NYSE MKT: VHC) against technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)
based on an East Texas jury's
finding that Apple owes more than $302
million in royalties for infringing internet security
patents owned by VirnetX.
Jurors in the Tyler, Texas,
courtroom of Judge Robert W. Schroeder
III delivered the verdict in favor of VirnetX on
Sept. 30 after one week of trial. The
case is VirnetX Inc., et al. v. Apple Inc., No. 6:10-CV-417,
in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry name principals Bradley W. Caldwell, Jason D. Cassady and J.
Austin Curry led the team representing VirnetX. The company
also called on Johnny Ward from
Ward, Smith & Hill, PLLC, in Longview and attorneys from Parker, Bunt &
Ainsworth, P.C., of Tyler. Also
representing VirnetX from Caldwell Cassady & Curry were firm
principal Justin T. Nemunaitis and
firm attorneys Hamad M. Hamad,
Warren J. McCarty, Jason S. McManis, Daniel
R. Pearson, Christopher S.
Stewart, and John F.
Summers.
VirnetX previously won two significant jury awards against Apple
with Caldwell Cassady & Curry as lead counsel, including a 2012
patent infringement verdict of $368
million involving four VirnetX network patents used in
iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. Two years later, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the jury's
infringement finding on two of the contested patents and confirmed
a finding of no invalidity on all four patents before vacating the
damages award. That ruling allowed Apple to stop paying royalties
and cleared the way for a retrial on damages.
In the retrial decided earlier this year before Judge Schroeder,
the attorneys from Caldwell Cassady & Curry won a $625 million verdict for VirnetX when jurors
determined that Apple infringed the same four patents from the
original trial. That award, which stands as the fourth-largest jury
verdict in the U.S. this year, was then vacated by the trial court.
The case was then severed into two trials, the first of which
VirnetX won on Friday.
"This verdict is the third time in a row that a jury has told
Apple that it must pay for infringing VirnetX's patents," says Mr.
Cassady. "It is clear that Apple used our client's intellectual
property without permission in order to sell hundreds of millions
of devices, which is why the jury ruled the way it did."
In addition to the three trial wins on behalf of VirnetX,
Caldwell Cassady & Curry helped a different client win a
$22 million patent infringement
verdict against Apple two weeks ago before another Eastern District
jury. In a separate patent dispute decided last year, the firm won
the nation's third-largest verdict when another Eastern District
jury awarded $532.9 million against
Apple.
Dallas-based Caldwell Cassady
& Curry represents clients in intellectual property disputes
and commercial litigation claims. The firm is home to trial lawyers
who have tried and won some of the biggest verdicts of the past
decade against some of the largest companies in the world. Visit
http://www.caldwellcc.com.
For more information, contact Bruce Vincent at
bruce@androvett.com or
800-559-4534.
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