Apple Is Accused In Illegal Using of VPN Technologies In iPhone

This Wednesday VirnetX filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the latter in violation of patent No. 6,502,135. NEC, Cisco and Aastra are also named as the defendants.

The patent No. 6,502,135 is titled «Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability" and describes technologies that are used in creating and managing VPN-connection. VirNetX is assured that these technologies are illegally used in all iPhones, iPod touches and an iPads.

This March VirnetX had already won a lawsuit against Microsoft, which was accused in a similar patent infringement. A trial ended with a $200 million settlement received by plaintiff and Microsoft's agreement to license the VirnetX patents.

VirnetX is a California-based company that holds nearly 40 patents. According to ComputerWorld, some of them were awarded to engineers who worked at Science Application International Corp., a company that has a tight partnership with the Department of Defense.

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