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Parties Involved:
Apple Inc.
Appellee
VirnetX Inc.
Appellant

Document Text:

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals 

for the Federal Circuit ______________________ 

VIRNETX INC.,

Appellant

v. 

APPLE INC.,

Appellee

______________________ 

2016-1211, 2016-1213, 2016-1279, 2016-1281

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Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. 

IPR2014-00403, IPR2014-00404, IPR2014-00481, 

IPR2014-00482.

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Decided: December 9, 2016

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JOSEPH PALYS, Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, DC, 

argued for appellant. Also represented by NAVEEN MODI, 

DANIELLE RUTH ACKER SUSANJ, IGOR VICTOR TIMOFEYEV, 

DANIEL ZEILBERGER. 

JOHN C. O'QUINN, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, 

DC, argued for appellee. Also represented by NATHAN S.

MAMMEN; JEFFREY PAUL KUSHAN, Sidley Austin LLP, 

Washington, DC.

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2 VIRNETX INC. v. APPLE INC. 

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Before O’MALLEY, MAYER, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.

O’MALLEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the validity of VirnetX Inc.’s 

(“VirnetX”) U.S. Patent Nos. 7,188,180 (“the ’180 patent”) 

and 7,987,274 (“the ’274 patent), disclosing technology for 

establishing secure communication over networks. Apple 

Inc. (“Apple”) challenged claims of the ’274 patent in two 

inter partes review proceedings, which were consolidated 

with IPR2014-00403 (“the 403 proceeding”) and IPR2014-

00404 (“the 404 proceeding”) initiated by Microsoft Corporation on similar grounds. Apple relied principally on 

U.S. Patent No. 6,557,037 to Provino (“Provino”) and 

Takahiro Kiuchi & Shigekoto Kaihara, C-HTTP – The 

Development of a Secure, Closed HTTP-based Network on 

the Internet (Feb. 1996) (“Kiuchi”), respectively, for each 

proceeding. Apple also challenged claims of the ’180 

patent in two inter partes review proceedings, IPR2014-

00481 (“the 481 proceeding”) and IPR2014-00482 (“the 

482 proceeding”), again relying principally on Provino and 

Kiuchi, respectively. VirnetX now appeals to this court.

After full review of the record and careful consideration, we find no error in the Patent Trial and Appeal 

Board’s (“the Board”) claim constructions or findings in 

the 403 and 481 proceedings. For the reasons given by 

the Board therein, we find the challenged claims unpatentable over Provino and the additional prior art cited. 

We do not, therefore, need to reach the merits of the 

Board’s decisions in the 404 and 482 proceedings. 

AFFIRMED 

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