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wtixh061
04-08-2011, 05:12 PM
Microsoft officials have made the decision to settle rather than keep on to battle inside the VirnetX patent-infringement situation.Microsoft has agreed to shell out VirnetX — a company which sued Microsoft for infringing on its networking patents — $200 million, the pair announced on May 17.The press release noted that “(a)s part of the settlement, Microsoft takes a license to the VirnetX patents for Microsoft’s products and will make a one-time payment of $200 million to VirnetX.” All other aspects of the settlement and license were not disclosed, the pair said.VirnetX sued Microsoft in 2007, claiming Microsoft was using VirnetX;s virtual private networking (VPN) patents without paying for their use. VirnetX cited Windows Server 2003, XP,Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (http://www.office-2007-key.co.uk/), Vista, Live Communications Server, Windows Messenger, Office Communicator and various versions of Office as infringing on two of its patents. After winning a first round in that situation against Microsoft in March 2010,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus (http://www.office2010key.us/), VirnetX filed an additional suit,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise (http://www.office2007key.in/), claiming Microsoft;s Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 also infringed on its networking patents.A Texas jury on March 16 recommended Microsoft pay VirnetX $105.75 million for willfully infringing on two VirnetX networking patents. Microsoft officials said at that time they were appealing that ruling.McKool Smith,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise (http://www.microsoftoffice2007key.net/), the law firm representing VirnetX, was the same one that represented i4i, which won a $200-million-plus patent-infringement verdict against Microsoft. Judge Leonard Davis, the same judge who presided over the i4i situation, was the East Texas judge overseeing the VirnetX case, as well.VirnetX, a subsidiary of VirnetX Holdings, is “focused on commercializing a patent portfolio for securing real-time communications over the Internet,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional (http://www.key-office-2007.de/),” the company explained in its November 10-Q.