The lawyers at McKool Smith have had an incredible string of court victories no matter how you look at it. For two years straight, the national trial litigation firm has scored more Top 100 verdicts than any other firm of any size, while Law 360 named the firm among its "IP Firms of the Year." The big verdicts come from a spectrum of defendants and practice areas, but Microsoft in particular has been the subject of several headline-grabbing and industry-changing jury awards.

Last year, the firm helped i4i Inc. secure a $290 million patent infringement judgment and an injunction blocking Microsoft from distributing its flagship software, Microsoft Word. And just this week, a Tyler, Texas, jury agreed that Microsoft had infringed on a patent owned by Scotts Valley, Calif.-based VirnetX Holding Corporation and awarded a $105.75 million patent infringement verdict.

From the LA Times blog: The trial lasted for a week in Tyler, Texas, and dealt with Microsoft products including Windows Vista and XP. The award involves $71.7 million for one patent and $34 million for another, the company said.
The jury also found that the Redmond, Wash.-based software behemoth willfully infringed on the patents. The patents deal with methods of creating virtual private networks, or VPNs, between computers and for establishing VPNs using secure domain names.
VirnetX spokesman Greg Wood said company executives were "obviously just overjoyed."
"Yesterday, the foundation of the tech world shifted," he said. "We are sitting on a goldmine. We probably have the most important patent portfolio in history in regards to security, and yesterday was instrumental in validating that."