A verdict reached late last month indicated that VMware must pay $84.5 Mn to Densify for infringing on two patents belonging to the rival software company, based on the decision of a Delaware federal jury.

Densify CEO Gerry Smith said the company was “grateful” for the verdict, which “validated the hard work of our inventors.”

Canada-based Densify won a verdict worth nearly $237 Mn against VMware in the same case in 2020.

A federal judge threw out that verdict and ordered a new trial later that year. Densify’s patent-holding subsidiary owned the patents at issue, and Judge Leonard Stark said the parent company did not have sufficient rights to the patents to be involved in the case at the time.

Densify accused Palo Alto, California-based VMware’s vROps, vSphere and other software of infringing patents covering “virtualization” technology that enables multiple computer systems to run on a single server.

VMware argued it did not infringe and that the patents were invalid. It later filed its own patent infringement lawsuit against Densify, which is still ongoing.