VirnetX CEO Kendall Larsen said today's decisions means that the USPTO has either "declined to institute review or terminated 37 IPR proceedings that were filed by New Bay, Apple, RPX, and Microsoft." Last September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit tossed out a verdict handed down by a Texas jury in late 2012 that would've slapped Apple with $368 million in damages on the basis that the FaceTime feature infringes on VirnetX's intellectual property, namely the '211, '504 and '181 patents. However, appeals court did affirm the validity of the claims-at-issue of these three patents in its September 2014 ruling and sent the case back to trial for further proceeds. Source: VirnetX