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From the VirnetX website:

http://virnetx.com/company/virnetx-promise/

"Cutting-edge secure communications technology is only one of the essential elements of our products – another is integrity. ..."

lol, what products?

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It's actually sad that this company with only patents and no products is a listed public company on a regulated US exchange.

Their shareholders probably don't mind - their share price is up 50+% today. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=VHC+Interactive#{"range":...

http://virnetx.com/virnetxs-gabriel-collaboration-suite-now-...

Not sure if they're actually out there, but at least their website lists one product.

FWIW, it looks like they acquired these patents from a company that actually does make something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_Internati...

This is speculative, but these patent filings were probably part of a patent filing strategy that helped justify the employment of a what was likely a decent number of engineers by the original owner.

I really can't say I care about those jobs. The engineers would have more than likely found other jobs with actual companies that actually do stuff.

According to the inventors' employer's website at the time of filing of these patents: "Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company, is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the nation. We provide information technology and systems integration solutions worldwide."

https://web.archive.org/web/20000511195702/http://www.saic.c...

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