Apple, Cisco, others sued by VirnetX for patent infringement

Newsbrief by Todd Haselton on Friday August 13, 2010.

A company called VirnetX has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, Astra Technologies, Cisco Systems, and NEC Corporation, according to Bloomberg. VirnetX alleges that the aforementioned firms each infringe on at least one of five patents involving virtual private networking. VirnetX won a $200 million settlement in a suit against Microsoft earlier this year which involved some of the same patents.