Microsoft plans to appeal the $105.7 million legal judgment leveled against it in a patent-infringement suit brought by VirnetX, which develops secure real-time communication links using secure domain names. VirnetX alleges that Microsoft infringed on two of its patents. Microsoft has battled a number of small IT companies in East Texas courts over the years, most recently in a 2009 case in which small Toronto-based IT company i4i alleged that certain editions of Microsoft Word infringed on its custom XML patent.
– Microsoft will appeal a $105.7 million legal judgment in a
patent-infringement case involving VirnetX Holding, a small communications and
collaboration technology company.
A Texas jury found March
16 that Microsoft had infringed on two U.S.
patents held by VirnetX: No. 6,502,135 B1, titled, …