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Apple Wins Appeals Battle in Ongoing Patent Infringement War With VirnetX, Could Save $502.8 Million
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court on Thursday confirmed a ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invalidating a pair of patents that VirnetX used in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, according to Reuters.
Apple in 2020 was ordered to pay VirnetX $503 million for infringing on VPN patents owned by VirnetX with the iPhone‘s VPN on demand feature. The two patents that have been invalidated were involved in that lawsuit, and now Apple might get the entire judgment vacated.
Apple appealed the $502.8 million award verdict after it was rendered, with both Apple and VirnetX presenting arguments in the appeal back in September. VirnetX attorney Jeff Lamken said at the time that if the court ultimately sided with the USPTO and invalidated the patents in the patent validity case, VirnetX could “have a big problem.” He said that he did not think VirnetX would have an “enforceable judgment” in that situation, so this is potentially a major win for Apple.
With the patents now invalidated, VirnetX and Apple will again meet in court over the initial appeals case that Apple filed to determine whether Apple will need to pay up, and it’s looking like the $502.8 million verdict will be thrown out.
Regardless of how this case plays out, Apple was forced to pay VirnetX $440 million for violating VirnetX’s communications security patents with the FaceTime and iMessage features.
VirnetX is largely viewed a patent holding company or “patent troll” that does not offer actual products or services. It generates revenue by litigating technology companies that infringe on its patents, though it does also market its “War Room” software for authenticated meetings.
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Max Hardcore dead at age 66: Controversial porn star Paul Little who was jailed for his films dies after health battle
CONTROVERSIAL porn star Max Hardcore who was once jailed for his adult films has died at age 66.
The actor, whose real name was Paul Little, died on Monday from septic shock and pneumonia after a cancer battle, his business partner said.
Little, who was known for his extreme and degrading adult film scenes, had been receiving radioactive iodine treatment following a thyroid cancer diagnosis in March 2022.
“He was almost at the finish line for the chemotherapy,” Little’s long-time office manager and business partner Paul Munoz said.
“He went in and did the surgery and he didn’t want to spend the weekend at the hospital, so he came back home and that’s when things went south for him.
“His wind tunnel ruptured and air started going into his neck and his neck started swelling up.”
Little was put on a ventilator at one point and spent a month in the hospital before things appeared to start improving in February.
“And then this past Friday, he suffered some kind of infection in his throat and downstairs,” Munoz said.
“This infection wiped him out because his immune system had not recovered from the last time in December.”
Little was still making efforts in the adult entertainment industry up until he was diagnosed with cancer.
He had a nearly three-decade long career with more than 500 performing credits and 360 credits as a director.
His movies were often slammed for their extreme and degrading nature.
The films landed him in legal trouble in May 2007, when he and his production company Max World Entertainment were indicted by a grand jury in Tampa, Florida, on charges of distributing obscene material through the U.S. mail and internet.
He was sentenced to 46 months in prison in 2008, however, he had supporters who believed that the charges were unjust.
“At the time, most journalists and bloggers saw Little as a victim – a man whose freedom of pornographic expression had been labeled criminal by the U.S. government,” Forbes’ Susannah Breslin wrote in 2011.
“Max did it his way. He walked the line and didn’t give a f**k if he fell off of it or not,” said Munoz.
“He knew he had a lot of people who didn’t like him.”
Still, many reviled Little for what they considered “abuse” in his films, as reported by Daily Mail.
Feminist Julie Bindel said that she celebrated Little’s death, tweeting: “I don’t believe in evil, but the feeling I got when I was once within hearing distance of this bastard was that I was in its presence.”
Other Twitter users shared their concerns over the material he produced in the thread, with one saying: “The world is a better place without him.”
Little is survived by his sister and two brothers.
Fortnite now shows how many people are playing Battle Royale — and every other island
Fortnite’s Discover tab, which lets you pick from Epic Games-made modes like Battle Royale or experiences from non-Epic creators, now show how many players are currently participating in any given experience. The change was officially rolled out on Wednesday, and it could be an important tool for creators to benchmark their work against Epic’s official modes.
You can see the player counts in the game’s Discover tab, which represent the global number of players in-match at any given time, Epic spokesperson Dan Walsh tells The Verge. Based on what I saw, it’s overwhelmingly clear that Epic’s Battle Royale and Zero Build (the no-building Battle Royale introduced last year) are dramatically more popular than any experiences made by non-Epic…
Musk’s Battle Against The Bots: Twitter Boss Redefines Blue-Ticks
It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence is increasingly modifying current technological times as well as posing threats to its future….
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