Wani kwamitin alkalai na tarayya ya kammala a ranar Juma’ar da ta gabata cewa aikace-aikacen AppleT FaceTime / aiki wanda ke ba da damar kira da kiran bidiyo tsakanin masu amfani da kamfanin da na wayoyin hannu da na tebur, ya keta haƙƙin mallaka wanda mallakar kamfanin VirnetX. Saboda wannan, dole ne kamfanin Cupertino ya ba wannan kamfani kwatankwacin dala miliyan 302don lalacewar da aka yi ne.
A cewar kamfanin dillacin labarai na Reuters, Alkali Robert Schroeder, wanda ya jagoranci shari’ar a Kotun Gundumar Tarayya ta Tyler, Texas, shi ne ke da alhakin bayar da wannan hukuncin, wanda, amma, ya samo asali ne daga shari’ar da ta fara tsakanin kamfanonin biyu dawo cikin 2010.
Apple ya yi hasarar yaƙi da VirnetX, sake
Yaƙin shari’a tsakanin kamfanonin Apple da VirnetX ya faro ne daga shekarar 2010, lokacin da aka zargi Apple da wasu kamfanoni da keta haƙƙin mallaka guda biyar masu alaƙa da hanyoyin sadarwar masu zaman kansu ko VPNs.
Shekarar mai zuwa, a cikin 2011, VirnetX ta rage manufofinta a kotu ta hanyar taƙaita cajin zuwa ƙetare lasisi guda ɗaya akan VPN ta hanyar iPhone 4S, na'urar Apple da aka saki a waccan shekarar.
A shekarar 2012 an yankewa Apple hukuncin biyan dala miliyan 368 lokacin da masu yanke hukunci suka sami kamfanin da laifin keta doka sun ce VirnetX patent duk da haka, an soke hukuncin bayan wasu shekaru, a cikin 2014, da Kotun Apaukaka Statesara ta Amurka bayan wannan kotun ta yi la’akari da cewa hukuncin “ya gurɓata” bisa ga kuskuren umarnin da juri’ar shari’ar ta samu.
Ta haka ne, a watan Fabrairun bara wani sabo fitina ta haɗa da ikirarin haƙƙin mallaka biyu na VirnetX akan Apple, wanda ya kasance an yanke masa hukuncin biyan dala miliyan 625,6. Amma tarihi ya kusan maimaita kansa.
Farin cikin VirnetX bai daɗe ba. Kimanin watanni biyu da suka gabata, Alkalin Gundumar Robert Schroeder na Tyler, Texas, aka bayyana a matsayin "rashin adalci" cewa an haɗa shari'o'in VirnetX guda biyu a cikin tsari ɗaya. A cewar alkalin kotun, da sake sake alkalancin "ko kuma" gurbace shi "saboda yayin shari'ar akwai maimaita ambato kan shari'o'in da suka gabata wadanda za su iya haifar da rudani a cikin alkalan kotun, lamarin da ya haifar da shari'ar da ba ta dace ba. A karkashin waɗannan muhawara, alkalin ya soke hukuncin da ya gabata kuma ya tabbatar da cewa ya kamata a gudanar da sabbin tsare-tsaren shari'a guda biyu.
Daga VirnetX, Shugaban Kamfanin Kendall Larsen, ya nuna rashin jin daɗin kamfanin game da shawarar Schroeder, amma sun bi abin da ya faru kuma sun nuna cewa kamfanin ya riga ya shirya don yaƙi na gaba:
"Mun yi takaici," in ji VirnetX Shugaba Kendall Larsen a cikin wata sanarwa Litinin. "Muna nazarin dukkan zabinmu kuma za mu bi umarnin kotu yayin da muke fara shirya wadannan sabbin shari'oin."
Sakamakon hukuncin Alkali Robert Schroeder (riƙe da sabbin shari'u biyu), ya ƙare, a wani ɓangare, tare da wannan shawarar da Apple zai biya VirnetX da adadin dala miliyan 302,4. Amma labarin bai zo karshe ba tunda har yanzu akwai sauran gwaji na biyu, shi ma don keta dokar mallakar doka da ta shafi amfani da IP, wanda ka iya haifar da sabon hukunci kan Apple.
Nasara bayan nasara
Wannan nasarar VirnetX tana ƙarawa zuwa ɗaya tuni dogon layi na nasarori akan Apple (duk da cewa dukkansu an soke su, kamar yadda muka riga muka gani) da kuma sauran kamfanoni a bangaren fasaha.
A shekara ta 2010, kamfanin ya sasanta a gaban kotu game da rikicin haƙƙin mallaka wanda ya gabatar game da Microsoft. A wannan halin, kamfanin da Bill Gates ya kafa ya amince da biyan dala miliyan 200.
Bugu da ƙari a cikin 2014, VirnetX ya sami damar riƙe haƙƙin haƙƙin mallakarsa a cikin shari'ar da ta shafi shahararren saƙon nan take (yanzu ma a hannun Microsoft) Skype, wanda ta karɓi wasu dala miliyan 23 daga gare ta.
