Apple lost FaceTime patent case, Has to pay a $368 Million fine

Well FaceTime is not Apple's idea after all. Today, Apple has lost a patent related case to VirnetX in the US, for infringing on four of patents related to to the video chat technology FaceTime.

Apple argued that it did not infringe upon any patents, that FaceTime was a free service with no revenue and that VirnetX does not have any products that use those patents but apparently it was not enough to please the judge and now Apple has been ordered to pay $368 million fine.

Apple doesn't have to pay the amount just yet. The company has now filed a motion asking whether VirnetX has sufficient evidence to support its case and to reexamine each of the four patents in question with the US Patent Office.

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