Tomas Chlebek asalin Tun daga shekara ta 2010, ana ci gaba da takaddamar haƙƙin mallaka tsakanin Apple da kamfanin VirnetX, wanda ya ƙware a kan mallakar haƙƙin mallaka da kuma shari'ar da ake yi wa kamfanoni masu cin zarafi. Laifukan da ta yi nasara a baya sun shafi, misali, Microsoft, Cisco, Siemens, da dai sauransu. Hukuncin kotu na yanzu akan Apple shine sakamakon jerin shari'o'in kusan shekaru shida game da keta haƙƙin mallaka ta iMessage da sabis na FaceTime, musamman ma damar VPN ɗin su.
An yanke hukuncin ne a jiya a wata kotun tarayya da ke gabashin Texas, wadda ta shahara da sada zumunci ga masu mallakar haƙƙin mallaka. VirnetX kuma ta shigar da wasu kararrakin da aka ambata a baya a wannan gundumar.
Ainihin karar da VirnetX ta kai karar Apple kan amintattun ka'idojin sadarwar su an daidaita shi ne a watan Afrilun 2012, lokacin da aka baiwa mai karar dala miliyan 368,2 a matsayin diyya ta dukiya. Saboda karar ta shafi nau'ikan da kansu da samfuran da ke ba su, VirnetX kusan an biya kaso na ribar da aka samu daga iPhones da Macs.
Apple yana da FaceTime tun lokacin sake yin aiki, amma a cikin watan Satumbar 2014 an soke hukuncin na asali saboda kuskuren lissafin diyya. A cikin sabon tsarin, VirnetX ya nemi dala miliyan 532, wanda aka kara karuwa zuwa adadin dala miliyan 625,6 na yanzu. Wannan yana la'akari da ci gaba da zargin cin zarafi da gangan na haƙƙin mallaka waɗanda ke cikin takaddamar.
Kafin yanke hukuncin na yanzu, an ce Apple ya shigar da kara da Alkalin Kotun Robert Schroeder don ayyana shari’ar a matsayin rashin gaskiya saboda zargin batanci da rudani da lauyoyin VirnetX suka yi a lokacin rufe muhawarar. Har yanzu Schroeder bai ce komai ba a hukumance kan bukatar.
