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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by curt15 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:00PM (#12215032)
Has VirnetX gone after Google yet? Hangouts uses peer to peer connections for video calls https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6334301?hl=en
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Re:Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple by tjl on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:54AM (#12224480)
It may be that they were waiting for the outcome of this trial. If they are successful against Apple that would likely improve their chances of succeeding against Google. It's a pretty common patent litigation approach.
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