A federal jury ruled last week that software company Citrix Systems should pay a USD $10 million fine for infringing on the patent of another U.S. firm. While that's a lot of money involving just one patent, it's far from the largest patent case seen in the computer networking industry. Just a few months ago, the Australian CSIRO won another Wi-Fi patent ruling, due to receive hundreds of millions of dollars more for its longstanding patent around Wi-Fi.
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The ruling against Citrix was for U.S. patent number 6,158,011, a "multi-access virtual private network." Which sounds simple enough, until lawyers get involved. Just check out the very first sentence of the patent abstract (and yes, this is all one sentence):
"A virtual private network for communicating between a server and clients over an open network uses an applications level encryption and mutual authentication program and at least one shim positioned above either the socket, transport driver interface, or network interface layers of a client computer to intercept function calls, requests for service, or data packets in order to communicate with the server and authenticate the parties to a communication and enable the parties to the communication to establish a common session key."→ More - Citrix Told to Pay $10 Million Over Networking Patent
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