VirnetX Holding 10Q 2012 Q3 Quarterly report

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2012

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number: 001-33852

VirnetX Holding Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		77-0390628
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

308 Dorla Court, Suite 206
Zephyr Cove, Nevada		89448
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code))

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (775) 548-1785

Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report:

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

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The number of shares outstanding of the Registrant’s Common Stock as of November 3, 2012, was 51,102,240.

VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION		1
	Item 1 — Financial Statements.	1
	Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011	1
	Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011	2
	Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011	2
	Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011	3
	Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements	4
	Item 2 — Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	10
	Item 3 — Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	13
	Item 4 — Controls and Procedures	13
PART II — OTHER INFORMATION		14
	Item 1 — Legal Proceedings	14
	Item 1A — Risk Factors	15
	Item 6 — Exhibit	21
SIGNATURES		22
EXHIBIT INDEX		23

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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share amounts)

	September 30, 2012			December 31, 2011
	(Unaudited)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	20,842		$	49,482
Investments available for sale	32,078			14,438
Prepaid taxes	8,770			10,459
Prepaid expense and other current assets	232			91
Total current assets	61,922			74,470
Property and equipment, net	64			56
Intangible and other assets	24			60
Deferred tax benefit	63			47
Total assets	$	62,073		$	74,633
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	$	1,986		$	1,227
Income tax liability	—			430
Derivative liability	3,854			4,699
Total current liabilities	5,840			6,356
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share
Authorized: 10,000,000 shares at September 30, 2012, and December 31, 2011, Issued and outstanding: 0 shares at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011	—			—
Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share
Authorized: 100,000,000 shares at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, Issued and outstanding: 51,102,240 shares at September 30, 2012, and 50,619,136 shares at December 31, 2011	5			5
Additional paid in capital	111,935			104,277
Accumulated deficit	(55,694		)	(36,001		)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(13		)	(4		)
Total stockholders' equity	56,233			68,277
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$	62,073		$	74,633

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2012			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2012			September 30, 2011
Revenue	$	368		$	3		$	404		$	20
Operating expense:
Research and development		253			273			783			705
General, selling and administrative		9,486			3,910			27,949			10,003
Total operating expense		9,739			4,183			28,732			10,708
Loss from operations		(9,371	)		(4,180	)		(28,328	)		(10,688	)
Gain (loss) on derivative liability		1,409			8,555			(570	)		(3,634	)
Interest income, net		110			44			313			173
Income (loss) before taxes		(7,852	)		4,419			(28,585	)		(14,149	)
Income tax benefit		3,133			1,460			8,896			3,100
Net income (loss)	$	(4,719	)	$	5,879		$	(19,689	)	$	(11,049	)
Basic earnings (loss) per share:	$	(0.09	)	$	0.12		$	(0.39	)	$	(0.22	)
Diluted earnings (loss) per share:		(0.09	)		0.11			(0.39	)		(0.22	)
Weighted average shares outstanding basic		51,074			50,342			50,870			49,854
Weighted average shares outstanding diluted		51,074			54,543			50,870			49,854

VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (Unaudited)

(in thousands)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2012			September 30, 2011			September 30, 2012			September 30, 2011
Net income (loss)	$	(4,719	)	$	5,879		$	(19,689	)	$	(11,049	)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments, net of tax		8			(7	)		(9	)		953

Comprehensive income (loss)	$	(4,711	)	$	5,872		$	(19,698	)	$	(10,096	)

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)

(in thousands)

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(19,689	)	$	(11,049)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		54			45
Stock-based compensation		4,077			3,104
Net change in deferred taxes		603			4,697
Change in value of derivative liability		570			3,634
Changes in assets and liabilities:
Receivables and other current assets		—			(301	)
Prepaid taxes		1,259			(10,023	)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		(141	)		—
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities		759			493
Income tax liability		—			(7,358	)
Net cash used in operating activities		(12,508	)		(16,758	)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of property and equipment		(26	)		(12	)
Purchase of investments		(45,436	)		(31,025	)
Proceeds from sale or maturity of investments		27,783			59,871
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities		(17,679	)		28,834
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from exercise of options		1,391			845
Proceeds from exercise of warrants		156			3,064
Net cash provided by financing activities		1,547			3,909
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents		(28,640	)		15,985
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		49,482			34,635
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	20,842		$	50,620

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

Note1 — Business Description and Basis of Presentation

VirnetX, Inc. (“we” or “VirnetX”) develop software and technology solutions for securing real-time communications over the Internet. Our patented GABRIEL Connection Technology™ combines industry standard encryption protocols with our patented techniques for automated domain name system, or DNS, lookup mechanisms, and enables users to create a secure communication link using secure domain names over wired or wireless (4G/LTE) networks.

Our software and technology solutions provide the security platform required by next-generation Internet-based applications such as instant messaging, or IM, voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, mobile services, streaming video, file transfer and remote desktop. Our technology generates secure connections on a “zero-click” or “single-click” basis, significantly simplifying the deployment of secure real-time communication solutions by eliminating the need for end-users to enter any encryption information.

We have agreed executed licenses and intend to seek further licenees for our technology, including our GABRIEL Connection Technology™ to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, of chips, servers, smart phones, tablets, e-Readers, laptops, net books and other devices, within the IP-telephony, mobility, fixed-mobile convergence and unified communications markets including 4G/LTE. We have published our royalty rates and guidelines on our website and intend to use these rates and guidelines in all future license negotiations.

During interim periods, we follow the accounting policies set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and apply appropriate interim financial reporting standards for a fair statement of our operating results and financial position in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, as codified by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) (referred to herein as U.S. GAAP), as indicated below. Users of financial information produced for interim periods in 2012 are encouraged to read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Interim financial reporting standards require us to make estimates that are based on assumptions regarding the outcome of future events and circumstances not known at that time, including the use of estimated effective tax rates. Inevitably, some assumptions will not materialize, unanticipated events or circumstances may occur which vary from those estimates and such variations may significantly affect our future results. Our financial results have varied significantly from period to period. Additionally, interim results may not be indicative of our results for future interim periods or our annual results.

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the SEC’s requirements for Form 10-Q and, in the opinion of management, contain all adjustments, of a normal and recurring nature, which are necessary for a fair statement of; (i) the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2011; (ii) the condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2011; (iii) the condensed consolidated balance sheets at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011; and (iv) the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2011. However, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements do not include all information and notes required by U.S. GAAP. The condensed consolidated balance sheet, included in this report, as of December 31, 2011 was derived from our 2011 audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by U.S. GAAP.

Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Revenue Recognition

We derive our revenue from patent licensing. The timing and amount of revenue recognized from each licensee depends upon a variety of factors, including the specific terms of each agreement and the nature of the deliverables and obligations. Such agreements can be complex and may or may not include multiple elements. These agreements may include, without limitation, elements related to the settlement of past patent infringement liabilities, up-front and non-refundable license fees for the use of patents, patent licensing royalties on covered products sold by licensees, and the compensation structure and ownership of intellectual property rights associated with contractual technology development arrangements. Beginning January 1, 2011, licensing agreements are accounted for under the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") revenue recognition guidance, "Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables." This guidance requires consideration to be allocated to each element of an agreement that has stand-alone value using the relative fair value method. In other circumstances, such as those agreements involving consideration for past and expected future patent royalty obligations, after consideration of the particular facts and circumstances, the appropriate recording of revenue between periods may require the use of judgment. In all cases, revenue is only recognized after all of the following criteria are met: (1) written agreements have been executed; (2) delivery of technology or intellectual property rights has occurred or services have been rendered; (3) fees are fixed or determinable; and (4) collectability of fees is reasonably assured.

Patent License Agreements: Upon signing a patent license agreement, we provide the licensee permission to use our patented technology in specific applications. We account for patent license agreements in accordance with the guidance for revenue arrangements with multiple deliverables and the guidance for revenue recognition. We have elected to utilize the leased-based model for revenue recognition, with revenue being recognized over the expected period of benefit to the licensee. Under our patent license agreements, we typically receive one or a combination of the following forms of payment as consideration for permitting our licensees to use our patented inventions in specific applications and products:

Consideration for Past Sales: Consideration related to a licensee’s product sales from prior periods may result from a negotiated agreement with a licensee that utilized our patented technology prior to signing a patent license agreement with us or from the resolution of a disagreement or arbitration with a licensee over the specific terms of an existing license agreement. We may also receive royalty for past sales in connection with the settlement of patent litigation where there was no prior patent license agreement. These amounts are negotiated based upon application of a royalty rate to historical sales prior to the execution of the license agreement. In each of these cases, since delivery has occured, we record the consideration as revenue when we have obtained a signed agreement, identified a fixed or determinable price, and determined that collectability is reasonably assured.

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Current Royalty Payments: These are ongoing royalty payments covering a licensee’s obligations to us related to its sales of covered products in the current contractual reporting period. Licensees that owe Current Royalty Payments are obligated to provide us with quarterly or semi-annual royalty reports that summarize their sales of covered products and their related royalty obligations to us. We expect to receive these royalty reports subsequent to the period in which our licensees’ underlying sales occurred. As a result, it is impractical for us to recognize revenue in the period in which the underlying sales occur, and, in most cases, we will recognize revenue in the period in which the royalty report is received and other revenue recognition criteria are met due to the fact that without royalty reports from our licensees, our visibility into our licensees’ sales is limited. Current Royalty Payments will be calculated based on related per-unit sales of covered products.

Revenues recognized for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012 resulted from settlements of patent infringement disputes (see Note 8 “Litigation”) whereby we received consideration for past sales of licensees that utilized our technology, where there was no prior patent license agreement.

Earnings Per Share

Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing earnings available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of outstanding common shares during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period increased to include the number of additional shares of common stock that would have been outstanding if the potentially dilutive securities had been issued.

Concentration of Credit Risk and Other Risks and Uncertainties

Our cash and cash equivalents are primarily maintained at two major financial institutions in the United States. Deposits held with these financial institutions may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits. A portion of those balances are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC. During the period ended September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, we had, at times, funds that were uninsured. The uninsured balance at September 30, 2012, was approximately $6,778 compared to $29,185 at December 31, 2011. We do not believe that we are subject to any unusual financial risk beyond the normal risk associated with commercial banking relationships with major financial institutions. We have not experienced any losses on our deposits of cash and cash equivalents.

Derivative Instruments

Our Series I Warrants are required to be accounted for as derivative liabilities and carried at fair value on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as a result of an anti-dilution provision which precludes them from being considered indexed to our stock. The warrant liabilities are marked-to-market each period and the change in the fair value is recorded as gain or loss on derivative liability in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

On an annual basis we identify and record impairment losses on long-lived assets when events and changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset might not be recoverable. Recoverability is measured by comparison of the anticipated future net undiscounted cash flows to the related assets’ carrying value. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the projected discounted future net cash flows arising from the asset.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value is the price that would result from an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. A fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurement). Level 2 measurements utilize either directly or indirectly observable inputs in markets other than quoted prices in active markets.

Our financial instruments are stated at amounts that equal, or approximate, fair value. When we approximate fair value, we utilize market data or assumptions that we believe market participants would use in pricing the financial instrument, including assumptions about risk and inputs to the valuation technique. We use valuation techniques, primarily the income and market approach that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs for recurring fair value measurements.

Certificate of deposits: Fair value measured at face value plus accrued interest.

Corporate bonds: Fair value measured at the closing price reported on the active market on which the individual securities are traded.

Series I Warrants: Fair value measured by using a Binomial valuation model. The assumptions used to measure fair value of our outstanding Series I Warrants carried as derivative liabilities on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet for September 30, 2012 included a warrant exercise price of $3.59 per share, a common share price of $25.43, a discount rate of 0.62%, and a volatility of 115%. The assumptions used for December 31, 2011, were a warrant exercise price of $3.59 per share, a common share price of $24.97, a discount rate of 0.83%, and a volatility of 123%.

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The following tables show our securities’ adjusted cost, gross unrealized gains, gross unrealized losses and fair value by significant investment category as of September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

	September 30, 2012
Level 1:	Adjusted Cost		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
Certificates of deposit	$	11,101	$	—	$	—		$	11,101

Corporate Bonds:
AA		4,096		—		(2	)		4,094
A		11,230		18		(9	)		11,239
BAA		5,664		3		(23	)		5,644
Total Corporate Bonds		20,990		21		(34	)		20,977

Total Investments at Fair Value	$	32,091	$	21	$	(34	)	$	32,078

	December 31, 2011
Level 1:	Adjusted Cost		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value
Certificates of deposit	$	2,582	$	—	$	—		$	2,582

Corporate Bonds:
AA		2,014		2		(3	)		2,013
A		9,846		—		(3	)		9,843
Total Corporate Bonds		11,860		2		(6	)		11,856

Total Investments at Fair Value	$	14,442	$	2	$	(6	)	$	14,438

The following tables set forth by level within the fair value hierarchy, our liabilities stated at fair value as of September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

	September 30, 2012
	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Total
Series l Warrants	$	—	$	—	$	3,854	$	3,854
Total	$	—	$	—	$	3,854	$	3,854

	December 31, 2011
	Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Total
Series l Warrants	$	—	$	—	$	4,699	$	4,699
Total	$	—	$	—	$	4,699	$	4,699

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The following table sets forth a summary of changes in the fair value of our Level 3 liability stated at fair value for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.

	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012				Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011
	Fair Value Measurements Using Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)				Fair Value Measurements Using Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Balance December 31, 2011	$	4,699		Balance December 31, 2010	$	14,364
Loss on derivative liability included in net loss		570		Loss on derivative liability included in net loss		3,634
Settlements		(1,415	)	Settlements		(15,259	)
Balance September 30, 2012	$	3,854		Balance September 30, 2011	$	2,739

New Accounting Pronouncement

In May 2011, the FASB issued a new accounting standard update, which amends the fair value measurement guidance and includes some enhanced disclosure requirements. The most significant change in disclosures is an expansion of the information required for Level 3 measurements based on unobservable inputs. The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011. This standard did not have an impact on our consolidated results of operations and financial position, when adopted on January 1, 2012.

In June 2011, the FASB modified the presentation of comprehensive income in the financial statements. The revised standard requires an entity to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements and must be applied retrospectively. This standard eliminates the former option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. The revised standard does not change the items that must be reported in other comprehensive income or when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income. The modification of the standard did not have an effect on our consolidated results of operations and financial position, when adopted, on January 1, 2012.

Note 3 — Patent Portfolio

As of September 30, 2012, we own 20 issued U.S. and 26 issued foreign patents, in addition to several pending U.S. and foreign patent applications. Our issued U.S. and foreign patents expire at various times during the period from 2019 to 2024. Some of our issued patents and pending patent applications were acquired by our principal operating subsidiary, VirnetX, Inc., from Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, in 2006 and we are required to make payments to SAIC based on cash or certain other values generated from those patents. The amount of such payments depends upon the type of value generated, and certain categories are subject to maximums and other limitations. As of June 30, 2010, we met our maximum royalty payment requirement; however, SAIC is also entitled under certain circumstances to receive a portion of the proceeds paid to us for certain acquisitions of VirnetX or from the settlement of certain patent infringement claims of ours. Capitalized patent costs, net of amortization, are included in intangible and other assets in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Note 4 - Income Taxes

The income tax benefit for the three months ended September 30, 2012 was $3,133, which was a negative effective income tax rate of 40 percent. The income tax benefit for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $8,896, which was a negative effective income tax rate of 31 percent. The tax benefit was lower than the benefit calculated using the statutory U.S. federal rate primarily as a result of the change of the valuation allowance, stock based compensation expense and non-deductible derivative loss.

The income tax benefit for the three months ended September 30, 2011 was $1,460, which was a negative effective income tax rate of 33 percent. The income tax benefit for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 was $3,100, which was a negative effective income tax rate of 22 percent.

In assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of deferred assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of the deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible.

Based on the available objective evidence, management believes it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets at September 30, 2012 will not be fully realizable. Accordingly, management has maintained a partial valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets at September 30, 2012.

At September 30, 2012, we have federal and state net operating loss carry-forwards of approximately $912 and $39,002 respectively, expiring beginning in 2027 and 2012, respectively.

Effective January 1, 2009, we adopted accounting guidance for income taxes, which clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise's financial statements and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statements recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The Company is now required to recognize in the financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more likely than not of being sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position.

We are required to recognize the financial statement effects of a tax position when it is more likely than not, based on the technical merits, that the position will be sustained upon examination. As a result, we have reserves for uncertain tax positions of $332 and $128 at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.

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Our tax years for 2005 and forward are subject to examination by the U.S. tax authority and various state tax authorities. These years are open due to net operating losses and tax credits remaining unutilized from such years.

Our policy is to recognize interest and penalties accrued on any unrecognized tax benefits as a component of income tax expense. As of September 30, 2012, we had accrued immaterial amounts of interest and penalties related to the uncertain tax positions.

Note 5 — Commitments

We lease our offices under an operating lease with a third party that requires minimum payments monthly until it ends in June 2013. The minimum lease payments due in 2013 total $42. We recognize rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

Note 6 — Stock Based Compensation

We have a stock incentive plan for employees and others called the “VirnetX Holding Corporation 2007 Stock Plan”, or the Plan, which has been approved by our stockholders. On April 13, 2012, the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors approved amendments to the Plan to allow us to grant restricted stock unit awards. 11,624,469 shares of our common stock are reserved for issuance under the Plan pursuant to stock options, stock purchase rights and restricted stock units (RSUs). The Plan will expire in 2018. As of September 30, 2012, 171,422 shares remained available for grant under the Plan.

We had 4,772,726 and 4,906,998 options outstanding at September 30, 2012, and December 31, 2011, respectively, with a weighted average exercise price of $6.70 and $5.12, respectively.

Share based compensation expense is measured at grant date, based on the fair value of the award, and is recognized over the employees’ requisite service period. On April 13, 2012, our Compensation Committee approved changes to the compensation for our Board of Directors, approved amendments to the Plan to allow us to grant RSUs and authorized the issuance of 227,500 options and 151,665 RSUs. We issued 50,000 options on April 5, 2012, with an exercise price of $23.84, 190,000 options on April 13, 2012, with an exercise price of $24.75, 37,500 options on May 24, 2012, with an exercise price of $29.90 and 40,000 options on July 23, 2012 with an exercise price of $35.25.

During the nine months ending September 30, 2012 and 2011, we granted options for a total of 317,500 and 435,000 shares respectively. The weighted average fair values at the grant dates for options issued during the nine months ending September 30, 2012 and 2011 were $23.34 and $21.43 per option, respectively. The fair value of options at the grant date was estimated utilizing the Black-Scholes valuation model with following weighted average assumptions for the nine months ending September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively: (i) dividend yield on our common stock of 0 percent and 0 percent; (ii) expected stock price volatility of 115 percent and 123 percent; (iii) a weighted average risk-free interest rate of 1.75 percent and 3.18 percent; and (iv) an expected option term of 7 years during both periods.

During the nine months ending September 30, 2012, we also granted RSUs totaling 151,665 that vest ratably over one to three years. The weighted average fair value of each issued RSU on the date of grant was, $24.20. RSUs, which are subject to forfeiture if employment terminates prior to the shares vesting, are expensed ratably over the vesting period.

Stock-based compensation expense included in general and administrative expense was $1,737 and $4,077 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, respectively, and $1,248 and $3,104 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively.

As of September 30, 2012, the unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to non-vested stock options was $16,736 which will be amortized as expense over an estimated weighted average vesting amortization period of approximately 1.54 years.

Note 7 — Warrants

Information about warrants outstanding during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 follows:

Original Number of Warrants Issued	Exercise Price per Common Share		Exercisable at December 31, 2011		Became Exercisable		Exercised		Terminated / Cancelled / Expired		Exercisable at September 30, 2012		Expiration Date

2,619,036(1)	$	3.59		204,908		—		43,441		—		161,467	March 2015
Total				204,908				43,441		—		161,467

(1)	Referred to as our Series I Warrants.

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Note 8 — Litigation

We have three intellectual property infringement lawsuits pending against multiple parties in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, pursuant to which we allege that these parties infringe on certain of our patents. We seek damages and injunctive relief in all the complaints. We have one complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple Inc. has engaged in unfair trade practices by the importation, sale for importation, and sale after importation of certain devices with secure communication capabilities that infringe one or more claims of our U.S. Patent No. 8,051,181.

On August 11, 2010, we initiated a lawsuit by filing a complaint against Aastra Technologies, Inc., Apple, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., and NEC Corporation.

On January 12, 2011, we initiated a new lawsuit by filing a complaint against Siemens Enterprise Communications and Mitel Networks Corp. On April 12, 2011, we amended this complaint to add Avaya, Inc., as a defendant. We believe that Aastra, Apple, Cisco, NEC, Siemens, Mitel and Avaya infringe on certain of our patents, but obtaining and collecting a judgment against these parties may be difficult or impossible. Patent litigation is inherently risky and the outcome is uncertain. Aastra, Apple, Cisco, NEC, Siemens, Mitel and Avaya are all large, well-financed companies with substantially greater resources than us. We believe that these parties will devote a substantial amount of resources in an attempt to prove that either their products do not infringe our patents or that our patents are invalid and unenforceable. At this time, we cannot predict the final outcome of these litigation matters.

On November 1, 2011, we initiated a lawsuit against Apple in the United States District Court, Tyler Division, pursuant to which we allege that Apple infringes an additional patent of ours. We seek damages and injunctive relief. No hearing or trial dates have been set.

On November 4, 2011,We filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple Inc. has engaged in unfair trade practices by the importation, sale for importation, and sale after importation of certain devices with secure communication capabilities that infringe one or more claims of our U.S. Patent No. 8,051,181. The accused products include the latest iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers. We have requested that the ITC institute an investigation into Apple’s allegedly infringing imports and ultimately bar Apple from importing those Apple products or further selling the infringing Apple products that have already been imported

On January 5, 2012, a claims construction hearing was held in our case against Aastra, Apple, Cisco and NEC in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division.

On April 25, 2012 the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued its Markman Order on the claim terms that were in dispute in the Aastra, Apple, Cisco and NEC litigation and adopted certain interpretations that we believe are favorable to us. The jury selection for the trial in connection with the Aastra, Apple, Cisco and NEC litigation is scheduled to start on November 5, 2012.

On May 3, 2012, we entered into a License Agreement with Aastra USA, Inc. Under the terms of the Agreement, the Parties have agreed to dismiss the patent infringement case between the Parties and their affiliates before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. All other aspects of the agreement were not disclosed.

On July 11, 2012, we have signed a Patent License Agreement with Mitel Networks Corporation. Under the terms of the Agreement, we agreed to license certain of our US patents to Mitel, for a one-time payment to VirnetX and an ongoing reasonable royalty for all future sales through the expiration of the licensed patents as outlined in the Agreement with respect to certain current and future IP-encrypted products.

On July 12, 2012, a claims construction hearing was held in our complaint against Siemens Enterprise Communications and Avaya Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. On August 1, 2012 the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued its Markman Order denying the request by the defendants to change the interpretation of some of the claim terms that were in dispute in the litigation, leaving them unchanged from what was previously adopted by the court in the Markman ruling in its other ongoing infringement action against Cisco, Apple and NEC. The jury selection for the trial in connection with the Siemens and Avaya litigation is scheduled to start on November 5, 2012.

On July 18, 2012, the Administrative Law Judge assigned to investigate our complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple Inc., identified a procedural discrepancy with the complaint that will impact the scheduling of the investigation. We disagree with this finding and on July 26, 2012 filed an appeal with the ITC in this regard.

On August 2, 2012, we signed a Patent License Agreement with NEC Corporation and NEC Corporation of America. Under the terms of the Agreement, we agreed to license certain of our US patents to NEC, for a one-time payment to VirnetX and an ongoing reasonable royalty for all futures sales through the expiration of the licensed patents as outlined in the Agreement with respect to certain current and future IP-encrypted products.

On September 14, 2012, we re-filed our complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple Inc. has engaged in unfair trade practices by the importation, sale for importation, and sale after importation of certain devices with secure communication capabilities that infringe one or more claims of VirnetX U.S. Patent No. 8,051,181 (“the ‘181 patent”). The accused products include the latest iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers. The complaint was filed jointly with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] to remove a procedural standing issue that was identified as the reason for dismissal of our previous complaint.

On September 18, 2012, we announced that after a hearing at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, requested by all the parties, the judge agreed to modify the trial schedule in our patent infringement suits against Apple, Cisco, Avaya and Siemens to allow for optimum use of resources for trial preparation while giving parties additional time to try to reach an agreement. Per the updated schedule, jury selection in our complaint against Apple began on October 29, 2012 followed by a jury trial on October 31, 2012. Remaining defendants including Cisco, Avaya and Siemens are now scheduled for a jury selection on March 4, 2013.

On October 16, 2012, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) accepted our complaint and instituted an investigation against Apple and assigned Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) E. James Gildea to preside over this investigation. Subsequently on October 23, 2012, the Administrative Law Judge Gildea issued an order setting up February 21, 2014 as the target date for completion of this investigation. The hearing in-front of the ALJ is scheduled for July 10, 2013.

On November 6, 2012, a federal jury issued a verdict awarding the Company $368.2 million in the Company’s patent infringement case against Apple, Inc. The jury found that Apple, Inc. infringed upon the Company’s patents for virtual private network and secure communication technology used in Apple’s FaceTimeTM video-calling function. Post-trial motions are expected to be heard over the upcoming weeks and at this time, it is unknown whether Apple, Inc. will appeal the case. Management is assessing how the verdict could impact the Company’s financial position and results of operations.

On November 6, 2012, we filed a complaint against Apple Inc., in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. The complaint includes allegations of willful patent infringement regarding four of our patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,502,135, 7,418,504, 7,921,211 and 7,490,151. In our complaint, we seek both damages and injunctive relief. The accused products include iPhone 5, iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPad 4th Generation, iPad mini, the latest Macintosh computers.

One or more potential intellectual property infringement claims may also be available to us against certain other companies who have the resources to defend against any such claims. Although we believe these potential claims are worth pursuing, commencing a lawsuit can be expensive and time-consuming, and there is no assurance that we will prevail on such potential claims. In addition, bringing a lawsuit may lead to potential counterclaims which may preclude our ability to commercialize our initial products, which are currently in development.

Note 9 — Subsequent Events

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ITEM 2 — MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

Note About Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this report, other than purely historical information, including estimates, projections, statements relating to our business plans, objectives, and expected operating results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are based, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements may appear throughout this report, including without limitation, the following sections: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis,” and “Risk Factors.” These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. A detailed discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements is included in the section titled “Risk Factors” (Part II, Item 1A of this Form 10-Q). We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Company Overview

We develop software and technology solutions for securing real-time communications over the Internet. Our patented GABRIEL Connection Technology™ combines industry standard encryption protocols with our patented techniques for automated domain name system, or DNS, lookup mechanisms, and enables users to create a secure communication link using secure domain names over wired or wireless (4G/LTE) networks. We are currently beta testing our GABRIEL Connection Technology™ as part of our Secure Domain Name Initiative, or (SDNI), on various platforms including PCs, smart phones and tablets. We also intend to establish the exclusive secure domain name registry in the United States and other key markets around the world.

Our portfolio of intellectual property is the foundation of our business model. We currently own 20 patents in the United States and 26 foreign patents, as well as several pending U.S. and foreign patent applications. Our patent portfolio is primarily focused on securing real-time communications over the Internet, as well as related services such as the establishment and maintenance of a secure domain name registry. Our patented methods also have additional applications in operating systems and network security. We have submitted a declaration with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, identifying a group of our patents and patent applications that we believe are or may become essential to certain developing specifications in the 3GPP LTE, SAE project. We have agreed to make available a non-exclusive patent license under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, with compensation, or FRAND, to 3GPP members desiring to implement the technical specifications identified by us. We believe that we are positioned to license our essential security patents to 3GPP members as they move into 4G.

We have an ongoing Gabriel Licensing Program under which we offer licenses to our patent portfolio, technology and software, including our secure domain name registry service, to domain infrastructure providers, communication service providers as well as to system integrators. Our Gabriel Connection TechnologyTM License is offered to OEM customers who want to adopt the GABRIEL Connection Technology™ as their solution for establishing secure connections using secure domain names within their products. We have developed GABRIEL Connection Technology™ Software Development Kit (SDK) to assist with rapid integration of these techniques into existing software implementations with minimal code changes and include object libraries, sample code, testing and quality assurance tools and the supporting documentation necessary for a customer to implement our technology. Customers who want to develop their own implementation of the VirnetX patented techniques for supporting secure domain names, or other techniques that are covered by our patent portfolio for establishing secure communication links, can purchase a patent license. The number of patents licensed, and therefore the cost of the patent license to the customer, will depend upon which of the patents are used in a particular product or service. These licenses will typically include an initial license fee, as well as an ongoing royalty.

We intend to license our patent portfolio, technology and software, including our secure domain name registry service, to domain infrastructure providers, communication service providers as well as to system integrators. We believe that the market opportunity for our software and technology solutions is large and expanding as secure domain names are now an integral part of securing the next generation 4G/LTE wireless networks. We also believe that all 4G mobile devices will require unique secure domain names and become part of a secure domain name registry.

In connection with the settlement of our lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation in 2010, Microsoft became our first licensee. Pursuant to the Settlement and License Agreement between us and Microsoft, Microsoft paid us $200 million, which has been recognized as gain on settlement and Microsoft was granted a worldwide, irrevocable, nonexclusive, non-sublicenseable fully paid up license for our patents for Microsoft products. We have also signed Patent License Agreements with Aastra USA, Inc. Mitel Networks Corporation, NEC Corporation and NEC Corporation of America, to license certain of our US patents, for a one-time payment to VirnetX and an ongoing royalty for all future sales through the expiration of the licensed patents with respect to certain current and future IP-encrypted products. We intend to seek further license of our technology, including our GABRIEL Connection Technology™ to enterprise customers, developers and original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, of chips, servers, smart phones, tablets, e-Readers, laptops, net books and other devices, within the IP-telephony, mobility, fixed-mobile convergence and unified communications markets including 4G/LTE. We have published our royalty rates and guidelines on our website. All licenses with current royalty payment obligations have adhered to these guidelines and have met or exceeded these rates and we will use these rates and guidelines in all future license negotiations.

We have three intellectual property infringement lawsuits pending against multiple parties in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, pursuant to which we allege that Apple, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., and Siemens Enterprise Communications and Avaya Inc. infringe on certain of our patents. We seek damages and injunctive relief in all the complaints. We have one complaint pending with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple, Inc. On October 31, 2012, a jury trial began regarding our Compliant against Apple. On November 6, 2012, jurors found that Apple infringed four of our patents. (see Legal Proceedings). The hearing against Cisco, Avaya and Siemens is now scheduled for jury selection on March 4, 2013. Our complaint against Apple in the ITC, is now scheduled for hearing, in-front of Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) E. James Gildea, on July 10, 2013 with a target completion date for the investigation set for February 21, 2014.

Our employees include the core development team behind our patent portfolio, technology and software. This team has worked together for over ten years and is the same team that invented and developed this technology while working at Science Application International Corporation, or SAIC. SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure and health. The team has continued its research and development work started at SAIC and expanded the set of patents we acquired in 2006 from SAIC into a larger portfolio with 46 issued U.S. and foreign patents and numerous pending U.S. and foreign patent applications. This portfolio now serves as the foundation of our licensing business and planned service offerings and is expected to generate the majority of our future revenue in license fees and royalties. We intend to continue our research and development efforts to further strengthen and expand our patent portfolio.

We intend to continue using an outsourced and leveraged model to maintain efficiency and manage costs as we grow our licensing business by offering incentives to early licensing targets or asserting our rights for use of our patents. We also intend to expand our design pilot in participation with leading 4G/LTE companies (domain infrastructure providers, chipset manufacturers, service providers, and others) and build our secure domain name registry.

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Competition

We believe our technology and solutions will compete primarily against various proprietary security solutions. We group these solutions into three main categories:

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Proprietary or home-grown application specific security solutions have been developed by vendors and integrated directly into their products for our target markets including IP-telephony, mobility, fixed-mobile convergence, and unified communications. These proprietary solutions have been developed due to the lack of standardized approaches to securing real-time communications. This approach has led to corporate networks that are isolated and, as a result, restrict enterprises to using these next-generation networks within the boundaries of their private network. These solutions generally do not provide security for communications over the Internet or require network administrators to manually exchange keys and other security parameters with each destination network outside their corporate network boundary. The cost-savings and other benefits of IP-based real-time communications are significantly limited by this approach to securing real-time communications.

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A session border controller, or SBC, is a device used in networks to exert control over the signaling and media streams involved in establishing, conducting and terminating VoIP calls. A traditional firewall or network address translation, or NAT, device typically block information like endpoint IP addresses and port numbers required by signaling protocols, such as SIP and XMPP, to reach and communicate with their intended destination. SBCs are used in physical networks to address these limitations and enable real-time session traffic to cross the boundaries created by firewalls and other NAT devices and enable VoIP calls to be established successfully. However, SBCs must decrypt and analyze every single data packet for the information to be transmitted successfully, thereby preventing end-to-end encryption. This network design results in SBCs becoming a single point of congestion on the network, as well as a single point of failure. SBCs are also limited to the physical network they secure.

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SIP firewalls, or SIP-aware firewalls, and application layer gateways, manage and protect the traffic, flow and quality of VoIP and other SIP-related communications. They perform real-time network address translation, dynamic firewall functions; support multiple signaling protocols, and media functionality, allowing secure interconnection and the flow of IP media streams across multiple networks. While SIP firewalls assist in analyzing SIP traffic transmitted over the corporate network to filter out various threats, they do not necessarily encrypt the traffic. As a result, this traffic is not entirely secure from end-to-end nor is it protected against threats like man-in-middle and eavesdropping.

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Results of Operation

Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012

Compared with Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

Revenue — Royalties

We had $368 in revenue for the three and $404 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. Revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 were $3 and $20, respectively. Our revenue in 2012 was royalties earned from license agreements with our customers. All license agreements entered into for 2012 have been priced in accordance with our standard royalty rates and guidelines.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Company recognized royalty revenue of $368 and $404 respectively, as part of settlement agreements entered into with customers during the patent infringement actions (see “Legal Proceedings”). In accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy related to a licensee’s product sales from prior periods, the amounts recognized resulted from negotiated agreements with licensees that utilized our patented technology prior to signing a patent license agreement with us. We record the consideration as revenue when we have obtained a signed agreement, identified a fixed or determinable price, and determined that collectability is reasonably assured. The Company, in the patent infringement actions did not request, nor did it receive any amounts allocable to settlement fees, expense reimbursement, damages or any other amount unrelated to historical sales. Revenue to be earned from forward licensing agreements entered into as a result of the litigation will be recognized as the earnings process is completed, license fees are fixed and determinable, and in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy.

Our revenue in 2011 was limited to the royalties earned under a single license agreement through our Japanese subsidiary. We expect the revenue from our Japanese subsidiary will continue to be insignificant in the future.

Research and Development Expenses

Our research and development expenses decreased by $20 to $253 for the three months ended September 30, 2012, from $273 for the three months ended September 30, 2011, and increased by $78 to $783 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 from $705 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to the increase in wages and medical costs for our employees.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses include management and administrative personnel, as well as outside legal, accounting, and consulting services.

Our selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $5,576 to $9,486 for the three months ended September 30, 2012, from $3,910 for the three months ended September 30, 2011, and by $17,946 to $27,949 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, from $10,003 for the comparable period in 2011. This increase is primarily due to an increase in legal fees of $5,302, for the three months ending September 30, 2012 and $17,195 for the nine months ending September 30, 2012, compared to the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2011 as a result of the increase in legal fees associated with the current patent infringement actions as well as increase in wages and medical expenses for our employees. We expect to incur the same levels or increased legal fees over the next quarter as we enter the final phase of preparation for trials in these infringement actions and expect to report losses from operations as a result. See Note 8 of the financial statements for additional information regarding these infringements actions. Management believes our legal expenses will decrease materially after our current court schedule is complete.

Other Income and Expenses

For the three months ended September 30, 2012, the non-cash gain related to the periodic revaluation of our Series I Warrants liability was $1,409, which compares to a non-cash gain of $8,555 for the three months ended September 30, 2011, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, the non-cash loss was $570 as compared to the non-cash loss of $3,634 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. The balance of the liability for the Series I Warrants decreased to $3,854 at September 30, 2012, from $4,699 at December 31, 2011. The gain from the revaluations of the warrant liability in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 were primarily the result of decrease in our common share price during the periods.

Interest income increased by $66 to $110 for the three months ended September 30, 2012, from $44 for the comparable 2011 period, and increased by $140 to $313 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012, from $173 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of September 30, 2012, our cash and cash equivalents totaled approximately $20,842 and our short-term investments totaled approximately $32,078, compared to cash equivalents of approximately $49,482 and short-term investments of approximately $14,438 at December 31, 2011. Working capital was $56,082 at September 30, 2012 and $68,114 at December 31, 2011. The decrease in cash and investments during the periods reported are primarily attributed to costs incurred for legal expenses in defense of our patent infringement actions, and losses incurred during the periods reported.

We expect that our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments as of September 30, 2012, will be sufficient to fund our operations and provide working capital for general corporate purposes and legal expenses for at least the next 48 months, which is in line with management expectations. Over the long term, we expect to derive the majority of our future revenue from license fees and royalties associated with our patent portfolio, technology, software and secure domain name registry in the United States and other markets around the world.

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Income Taxes

At September 30, 2012, we have federal and state net operating loss carry-forwards of approximately $912 and $39,002 respectively, expiring beginning in 2027 and 2012, respectively.

Contractual Obligations

There have been no material changes to the contractual obligations disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

None.

ITEM 3 — QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK. (in thousands)

Interest Rate Risk

We invest our excess cash primarily in highly liquid instruments including time deposits, money market, and corporate debt securities. We seek to limit the amount of our credit exposure to any one issuer.

Investments in fixed rate instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. Fixed rate securities may have their fair market value adversely impacted due to a rise in interest rates. Due in part to these factors, our income from investments may decrease in the future.

We considered the historical volatility of short-term interest rates and determined that it was reasonably possible that an adverse change of 100 basis points could be experienced in the near term but would have an immaterial impact in the fair value of our marketable securities, which generally mature within six months of September 30, 2012.

Other Market Risks

We have no obligation to settle our Series I Warrant obligations in cash. However, these derivative instruments are accounted for as liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets and are marked-to-market each period based on their estimated fair value. The non-cash gains or losses from the decreases and increases in the estimated fair value of the warrant liability are recognized in earnings each period. The estimated fair value is determined in large part by reference to our assumptions and estimates of various factors. Our liability will increase by approximately $200 and we may recognize significant non-cash losses, if all other factors being constant, the market price of our common shares increase by $1. Conversely, our liability will decrease by approximately $200 and we may recognize significant non-cash gains, if all other factors being constant, if the market price of our common shares decreases by $1.

We considered the historical volatility of our stock prices and determined that it was reasonably possible that the fair market value of our stock price could increase substantially in the near term and could have a material impact to our consolidated balance sheets and statement of operations.

ITEM 4 — CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as of September 30, 2012.

The purpose of this evaluation was to determine whether as of September 30, 2012 our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that the information we are required to disclose in our filings with the SEC, (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Based on their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of September 30, 2012, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1 — LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

We have three intellectual property infringement lawsuits pending against multiple parties in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, pursuant to which we allege that these parties infringe on certain of our patents. We seek damages and injunctive relief in all the complaints. We have one complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple Inc. has engaged in unfair trade practices by the importation, sale for importation, and sale after importation of certain devices with secure communication capabilities that infringe one or more claims of our U.S. Patent No. 8,051,181.

On August 11, 2010, we initiated a lawsuit by filing a complaint against Aastra Technologies, Inc., Apple, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., and NEC Corporation.

On January 5, 2012, a claims construction hearing was held in our case against Aastra, Apple, Cisco and NEC in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division.

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ITEM 1A — RISK FACTORS.

You should carefully consider the following material risks in addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q before making any investment in the offered securities. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial may also adversely affect our business. If any of these risk factors occurs, you could lose substantial value or your entire investment in our shares.

Risks Related to Financial Reporting Obligations

Our 2009 and 2010 consolidated financial statements were restated in 2011 in connection with our identification of a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting; we may identify future material weakness which may result in late filings, increased costs or declines in our share price.

In early 2011, we restated our previously filed financial statements for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2010, each of the then previous five fiscal quarters and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, to adjust our accounting for our Series I Warrants. In connection with these restatements, we determined that we had not maintained effective control over our accounting for these Series I Warrants and, as a result, that a material weakness existed with respect to our reporting of complex, non-routine transactions as of the end of the periods covered by the Form 10-K and Form 10-Qs that included the financial statements referenced above. Although we believe that we currently maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting as regards this issue, we may in the future identify deficiencies regarding the design and effectiveness of our system of internal control over financial reporting. In addition, we expect that we will continue to be required to provide a management report in our Form 10-K regarding our internal control over financial reporting and that our independent registered public accounting firm will continue to be required to attest to our internal control matters. If we experience any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting in the future or are unable to provide unqualified management or attestation reports about our internal controls, we may be unable to meet financial and other reporting deadlines and may incur costs associated with remediation, any of which could cause our earnings and share price to decline.

Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry

We are involved and will continue to be involved in numerous litigation matters, which can be time-consuming, costly and we cannot anticipate the results.

We spend a significant amount of our financial and management resources to pursue our current litigation matters. We believe that these litigation matters and others that we may in the future determine to pursue could continue for years and continue to consume significant financial and management resources. The counterparties to our litigation are all large, well-financed companies with substantially greater resources than us. We cannot assure you that any of our current or future litigation matters will result in a favorable outcome for us. Also, we cannot assure you that we will not be exposed to claims or sanctions against us which may be costly or impossible for us to defend. Unfavorable or adverse outcomes may result in losses, exhaustion of financial resources or other conditions which could adversely affect our ability to develop and commercialize products, our financial results and our share price.

We may not be able to capitalize on market opportunities related to our licensing strategy or our patent portfolio.

Our business strategy includes licensing our patents and technology to other companies in order to reach a larger end-user base than we could reach through direct sales and marketing efforts; as such, our business strategy will depend on intellectual property licensing fees and royalties for the majority of our revenues. We currently derive minimal revenue from licensing activities and we cannot assure you that we will successfully capitalize on our market opportunities or that our current business strategy will succeed. Factors on-going that may affect our ability to execute our current business strategy including, but are not limited to:

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Although we entered into a Settlement and License Agreement with Microsoft Corporation, we may not be successful in entering into further licensing relationships;

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Third parties may challenge the validity of certain of our patents;

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The pendency of our various litigations may cause potential licensees not to do business with us;

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We face, and we expect to continue to face, intense competition from new and established competitors who may have superior products and services or better marketing, financial or other capacities than we do; and

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It is possible that one or more of our potential customers or licensees develops or otherwise sources products or technologies similar to, competitive with or superior to ours.

If we are not able to adequately protect our patented rights, our business would be negatively impacted.

We believe our patents are valid, enforceable and valuable. Notwithstanding this belief, third parties may make claims of infringement or invalidity claims with respect to our patents and such claims could give rise to material cost for defense or settlement or both, jeopardize or substantially delay a successful outcome of litigation we are or may become involved in, divert resources away from our other activities, limit or cease our revenues related to such patents, or otherwise materially and adversely affect our business. Similar challenges could also prevent us from obtaining additional patents in the future. Even if we are successful in enforcing our rights, our patents may not ultimately provide us with any competitive advantages and may be less valuable than we currently expect. These risks may be heightened in countries other than the U.S. where laws regarding patent protection are less developed, and may be negatively affected by the fact that legal standards in the U.S. and elsewhere for protection of intellectual property rights in Internet-related businesses are uncertain and still evolving. In addition, there are a significant number of U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications in our areas of interest, and we expect that significant litigation in these areas will continue, and will add uncertainty to the value of certain patents and other intellectual property rights in our areas of interest. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights or otherwise realize value from them, our business would be negatively affected.

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We can provide no assurances that the licensing of our essential security patents under FRAND will be successful.

At the request of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), we agreed to update our licensing declaration to ETSI and ATIS under their respective Intellectual Property Rights (IRP) policies. This was in response to our Statement of Patent Holder identifying a group of our patents and patent applications that we believe are or may become essential to certain developing specifications in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE), Systems Architecture Evolution (SAE) project. We will make available a non-exclusive patent license under FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, with compensation) for the patents identified by VirnetX that are or become essential, to applicants desiring to implement the Technical Specifications identified by VirnetX, as set forth in the updated licensing declaration under the ATIS and ETSI IPR policies. Our licensing declarations under the ATIS and ETSI IPR policies may limit our flexibility in determining royalties and license terms for certain of our patents. Consequently, we cannot assure you that the licensing of the essential security patents will be successful third parties will be willing to enter into licenses with VirnetX on reasonable terms or at all, which could have an adverse effect on our business and harm our competitive position.

Because our business is conducted or expected to be conducted in an environment that is subject to rapid change, we may be subject to various developments in regulation, law and consumer preferences that we may not be able to adapt too successfully.

The current regulatory environment for our products and services remains unclear. We can give no assurance that our planned product offerings will be in compliance with laws and regulations of local, state, U.S. federal or foreign authorities. Further, we can give no assurance that we will not unintentionally violate such laws or regulations or that such laws or regulations will not be modified, or that new laws or regulations will be enacted in the future which would cause us to be in violation of such laws or regulations. For example, VoIP services are not currently subject to all of the same regulations that apply to traditional telephony, but it is possible similar regulations may be applied to VoIP in the future and that these could result in substantial costs which adversely affect the marketability of our products and planned products related to VoIP. For further example, the use of the Internet and private IP networks for communication is largely unregulated within the United States, but may become regulated in the future; also several foreign governments have enacted measures that could restrict or prohibit voice communications services over the Internet or private IP networks.

Our business depends on the growth of IM, VoIP, mobile services, streaming video, file transfer and remote desktop and other next-generation Internet-based applications which are relatively new. The Internet may ultimately prove not to be a viable commercial marketplace which could cease growth or cause material decline in the number of users in these areas due to complexity or cost of these applications relative to alternate traditional or newly developed communications channels.

More aggressive domestic or international regulation of the Internet in general, and Internet telephony providers and services specifically or a lack of growth in acceptance of the Internet as a long term viable marketplace for communications services may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and future prospects.

Our exposure to new legislation, court rulings, actions by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and other events and regulations related to intellectual property rights and the protections thereof, could adversely affect our licensing and enforcement activities and results of operations.

Our licensing and enforcement activities are subject to numerous risks, including the following:

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New legislation, regulations or rules related to obtaining patents or enforcing patents could significantly increase our operating costs and decrease our revenue. For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently modified some tests used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in granting patents during the past 20 years which may decrease the likelihood that we will be able to obtain patents and increase the likelihood of challenge of any patents we obtain or license. In addition, the U.S. recently enacted sweeping changes to the U.S. patent system under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), including changes that would transition the U.S. from a “first-to-invent” system to a “first to file” system and alter the processes for challenging issued patents

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More patent applications are filed each year resulting in longer delays in getting patents issued by the USPTO.

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Federal courts are becoming more crowded, and as a result, patent enforcement litigation is taking longer.

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As patent enforcement becomes more prevalent, it may become more difficult for us to voluntarily license our patents.

Our inability to enforce our patents in an efficient manner, or at all, could have a material, adverse effect on our business and financial results.

If we experience security breaches, we could be exposed to liability and our reputation and business could suffer.

We expect to retain certain confidential customer information in our secure data centers and secure domain name registry. It will be critical to our business strategy that our facilities and infrastructure remain secure and are perceived by the marketplace to be secure. Our secure domain name registry operations will also depend on our ability to maintain our computer and telecommunications equipment in effective working order and to reasonably protect our systems against interruption, and potentially depend on protection by other registrars in the shared registration system. The secure domain name servers that we will operate will be critical hardware to our registry services operations. Therefore, we expect to have to expend significant time and money to maintain or increase the security of our facilities and infrastructure. Security technologies are constantly being tested by computer professionals, academics and “hackers.” Advances in the techniques for attacking security solutions could make some or all of our products obsolete or unmarketable. Likewise, if any of our products are found to have significant security vulnerabilities, then we may need to dedicate engineering and other resources to eliminate the vulnerabilities and to repair or replace products already sold or licensed to our customers. Despite our security measures, our infrastructure may be vulnerable to physical break-ins, computer viruses, attacks by hackers or similar disruptive problems. It is possible that we may have to expend additional financial and other resources to address such problems. Any physical or electronic break-in or other security breach or compromise of the information stored at our secure data centers and domain name registration systems may jeopardize the security of information stored on our premises or in the computer systems and networks of our customers. In such an event, we could face significant liability and customers could be reluctant to use our services. Such an occurrence could also result in adverse publicity and therefore adversely affect the market’s perception of the security of electronic commerce and communications over IP networks as well as the security or reliability of our services.

A security breach could require a substantial amount of expense to rectify and could result in a product liability claim that causes us to incur substantial liability and related legal and other costs. A security breach may also harm our reputation and make it more difficult or impossible for us to successfully market to others. These matters could harm our operating results and financial condition.

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We expect that we will experience long and unpredictable sales cycles, which may impact our operating results.

We expect that our sales cycles will be long and unpredictable due to a number of uncertainties such as:

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The need to educate potential customers about our patent rights and our product and service capabilities;

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Customers’ willingness to invest potentially substantial resources and modify their network infrastructures to take advantage of our products;

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Customers’ budgetary constraints including as a result of the macroeconomic environment and decreases in IT spending;

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The timing of customers’ budget cycles; and

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Delays caused by customers’ internal review processes.

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Long sales cycles may increase the risk that our financial resources are exhausted before we are able to generate significant revenue.

We expect that we will be substantially dependent on a concentrated number of customers. If we are unable to establish, maintain or replace our relationships with customers and develop a diversified customer base, our revenues may fluctuate and our growth may be limited.

A significant portion of our revenues is generated and we expect will continue to be from a limited number of customers. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to obtain additional customers, or if we do so, to sustain our revenue levels from these prospective customers. If we are not able to establish, maintain or replace the limited group of prospective customers that we anticipate may generate a substantial majority of our revenues in the future, or if they do not generate revenues at the levels or at the times that we anticipate, our ability to maintain or grow our revenues will be adversely affected.

Our products are highly technical and may contain undetected errors, which could cause harm to our reputation and adversely affect our business.

Our products are highly technical and complex and, when deployed, may contain errors or defects. Despite testing, some errors in our products may only be discovered after a product has been installed and used by customers. Any errors or defects discovered in our products after commercial release could result in failure to achieve market acceptance, loss of revenue or delay in revenue recognition, loss of customers and increased service and warranty cost, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, we could face claims for product liability, tort or breach of warranty, including claims relating to changes to our products made by our channel partners. The performance of our products could have unforeseen or unknown adverse effects on the networks over which they are delivered as well as on third-party applications and services that utilize our services, which could result in legal claims against us, harming our business. Furthermore, we expect to provide implementation, consulting and other technical services in connection with the implementation and ongoing maintenance of our products, which typically involves working with sophisticated software, computing and communications systems. We expect that our contracts with customers will contain provisions relating to warranty disclaimers and liability limitations, which may not be upheld. Defending a lawsuit, regardless of its merit, is costly and may divert management’s attention and adversely affect the market’s perception of us and our products. In addition, if our business liability insurance coverage proves inadequate or future coverage is unavailable on acceptable terms or at all, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely impacted.

Malfunctions of third-party communications infrastructure, hardware and software expose us to a variety of risks we cannot control.

Our business will depend upon, among other things, the capacity, reliability and security of the infrastructure owned by third parties that we will use to deploy our offerings. We have no control over the operation, quality or maintenance of a significant portion of that infrastructure or whether or not those third parties will upgrade or improve their equipment. We depend on these companies to maintain the operational integrity of our connections. If one or more of these companies is unable or unwilling to supply or expand its levels of service to us in the future, our operations could be severely interrupted. Also, to the extent the number of users of networks utilizing our future products suddenly increases, the technology platform and secure hosting services which will be required to accommodate a higher volume of traffic may result in slower response times or service interruptions. System interruptions or increases in response time could result in a loss of potential or existing users and, if sustained or repeated, could reduce the appeal of the networks to users. In addition, users depend on real-time communications; outages caused by increased traffic could result in delays and system failures. These types of occurrences could cause users to perceive that our solution does not function properly and could therefore adversely affect our ability to attract and retain licensees, strategic partners and customers.

System failure or interruption or our failure to meet increasing demands on our systems could harm our business.

The success of our license and service offerings will depend on the uninterrupted operation of various systems, secure data centers and other computer and communication networks that we establish. To the extent the number of users of networks utilizing our future products suddenly increases, the technology platform and hosting services which will be required to accommodate a higher volume of traffic may result in slower response times, service interruptions or delays or system failures. Our systems and operations will also be vulnerable to damage or interruption from:

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power loss, transmission cable cuts and other telecommunications failures;

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damage or interruption caused by fire, earthquake, and other natural disasters;

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computer viruses or software defects; and

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physical or electronic break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism, terrorist attacks and other events beyond our control.

System interruptions or failures and increases or delays in response time could result in a loss of potential or existing users and, if sustained or repeated, could reduce the appeal of the networks to users. These types of occurrences could cause users to perceive that our solution does not function properly and could therefore adversely affect our ability to attract and retain licensees, strategic partners and customers.

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Any significant problem with our systems or operations could result in lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction or lawsuits against us. A failure in the operation of our secure domain name registration system could result in the inability of one or more registrars to register and maintain secure domain names for a period of time. A failure in the operation or update of the master directory that we plan to maintain could result in deletion or discontinuation of assigned secure domain names for a period of time. The inability of the registrar systems we establish, including our back office billing and collections infrastructure, and telecommunications systems to meet the demands of an increasing number of secure domain name requests could result in substantial degradation in our customer support service and our ability to process registration requests in a timely manner.

Our ability to sell our solutions will be dependent on the quality of our technical support, and our failure to deliver high-quality technical support services could have a material adverse effect on our sales and results of operations.

If we do not effectively assist our customers in deploying our products, succeed in helping our customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues and provide effective ongoing support, or if potential customers perceive that we may not be able achieve to the foregoing, our ability to sell our products would be adversely affected, and our reputation with potential customers could be harmed. In addition, as we expand our operations internationally, our technical support team will face additional challenges, including those associated with delivering support, training and documentation in languages other than English. Our failure to deliver and maintain high-quality technical support services to our customers could result in customers choosing to use our competitors’ products instead of ours in the future.

Telephone carriers have petitioned governmental agencies to enforce regulatory tariffs, which, if granted, would increase the cost of online communication, and such increase in cost may impede the growth of online communication and adversely affect our business.

Use of the Internet has over-burdened existing telecommunications infrastructures, and many high traffic areas have begun to experience interruptions in service. As a result, certain local telephone carriers have petitioned governmental agencies to enforce regulatory tariffs on IP telephony traffic that crosses over their traditional telephone networks. If the relief sought in these petitions is granted, the costs of communicating via online could increase substantially, potentially adversely affecting the growth in the use of online secure communications. Any of these developments could have an adverse effect on our business.

The departure of Kendall Larsen, our Chief Executive Officer and President, and/or other key personnel could compromise our ability to execute our strategic plan and may result in additional severance costs to us.

Our success largely depends on the skills, experience and efforts of our key personnel, including Kendall Larsen, our Chief Executive Officer and President. We have no employment agreements with any of our key executives that prevent them from leaving us at any time. In addition, we do not maintain key person life insurance for any of our officers or key employees. The loss of Mr. Larsen, or our failure to retain other key personnel, would jeopardize our ability to execute our strategic plan and materially harm our business.

We will need to recruit and retain additional qualified personnel to successfully grow our business.

Our future success will depend in part on our ability to attract and retain qualified operations, marketing and sales personnel as well as engineers. Inability to attract and retain such personnel could adversely affect our business. Competition for engineering, sales, marketing and executive personnel is intense, particularly in the technology and Internet sectors and in the regions where our facilities are located. We can provide no assurance that we will attract or retain such personnel.

Risks Related to Our Stock

We do not intend to pay regular future dividends on our common stock and thus stockholders must look to appreciation of our common stock to realize a gain on their investments.

Although we paid a special cash dividend to holders of our common stock with a record date of July 1, 2010, we do not have any plans to pay regular dividends in the foreseeable future. Instead, we generally intend to retain future earnings to fund our business plan. Our future dividend policy is within the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon various factors, including our business, financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, and investment opportunities. Accordingly, stockholders must generally look to appreciation of our common stock to realize a gain on their investment. This appreciation may not occur.

The exercise of our outstanding stock options would result in a dilution of our current stockholders' voting power and an increase in the number of shares eligible for future resale in the public market which may negatively impact the market price of our stock.

The exercise of our outstanding vested stock options would dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders. As of September 30, 2012, we had outstanding options to purchase an aggregate of 4,772,726 shares of common stock (representing 9.3% of our total shares outstanding as of September 30, 2012) of which 3,916,989 are vested and therefore exercisable. To the extent outstanding stock options are exercised, additional shares of common stock will be issued, and such issuance would dilute non-exercising stockholders' percentage voting interests and increase the number of shares eligible for resale in the public market.

The fair value of accounting for our Series I Warrants as derivative liabilities may materially impact our results of our operations in future periods.

We record the Series I Warrants as a derivative liability in accordance with ASC 815-40, “Derivatives and Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity.” These derivative liabilities are reported at fair value each reporting period with changes in the fair value recognized as gain or loss during each reporting period. An increase in our share price or measure of our share price volatility, for example, will generally result in an increase in the fair value of our warrant liability and a non-cash charge during the period of such increase, which could materially and negatively impact our results of operations in future periods.

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Trading in our common shares is limited and the price of our common shares may be subject to substantial volatility, particularly in light of the instability in the financial and capital markets.

Our common stock is listed on NYSE Amex, but its daily trading volume has been limited, sporadic and volatile. Over the past years the market price of our common stock has experienced significant fluctuations. Between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012, the reported last sale price on NYSE Amex for our common stock ranged between $12.38 and $40.47 per share. The price of our common stock will likely continue to be volatile as a result of a number of factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include, but not limited to, the following:

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developments in any then-outstanding litigation;

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quarterly variations in our operating results;

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large purchases or sales of common stock;

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actual or anticipated announcements of new products or services by us or competitors;

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general conditions in the markets in which we compete; and

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general economic and financial conditions.

The market price of our common stock may decline because our operating results may not be consistent and may be difficult to predict.

Our reported net income has fluctuated in the past due to several factors. We expect that our future operating results may also fluctuate due to the same or similar factors. We had a net loss of $12.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2009, net income of $41.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2010, and a net loss of $17.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2011. Some of the factors that may cause our operating results to fluctuate include:

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the outcome of enforcement actions currently in progress or that we may undertake in the future, and the timing thereof;

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the amount and timing of receipt of license fees from potential infringers, licensees or customers;

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the outcome of actions we have taken and may take in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights;

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the rate of adoption of our patented technologies;

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the number of new license arrangements we may execute, or that may expire, within a particular period and the scope of those licenses, including the number of our patents which are licensed, the extent of prior infringement of our patent rights, royalty rates, timing of payment obligations, expiration date etc;

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the success of a licensee in selling products that use our patented technologies; and

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the amount and timing of expenses related to our patent filings and enforcement proceedings, including litigation, related to our intellectual property rights.

These fluctuations may make our business particularly difficult to manage, adversely affect our business and operating results, make our operating results difficult for investors to predict and, further, cause our results to fall below investor’s expectations and adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Because ownership of our common stock is concentrated, investors may have limited influence on stockholder decisions.

As of September 30, 2012, our executive officers and directors beneficially owned approximately 20% of our then outstanding common stock. In addition, a group of stockholders that, as of December 31, 2007, held 4,766,666 shares, or approximately 12%, of our then outstanding common stock, has entered into a voting agreement with us that requires them to vote all of their shares of our voting stock in favor of the director nominees approved by our Board of Directors at each director election going forward, and in a manner that is proportional to the votes cast by all other voting shares as to any other matters submitted to the stockholders for a vote. However, we cannot be certain how many shares of our common stock this group of stockholders currently owns. Because of their beneficial ownership interest, our officers and directors could significantly influence stockholder actions of which you disapprove or that are contrary to your interests. In addition, this ability to exercise significant influence could prevent or significantly delay another company from acquiring or merging with us.

Our protective provisions could make it difficult for a third party to successfully acquire us even if you would like to sell your stock to them.

We have a number of protective provisions that could delay, discourage or prevent a third party from acquiring control of us without the approval of our Board of Directors. Our protective provisions include:

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A staggered Board of Directors: This means that only one or two directors (since we have a five-person Board of Directors) will be up for election at any given annual meeting. This has the effect of delaying the ability of stockholders to effect a change in control of us because it would take two annual meetings to effectively replace a majority of the Board of Directors.

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Blank check preferred stock: Our Board of Directors has the authority to establish the rights, preferences and privileges of our 10,000,000 authorized, but unissued, shares of preferred stock. Therefore, this stock may be issued at the discretion of our Board of Directors with preferences over your shares of our common stock in a manner that is materially dilutive to you. In addition, blank check preferred stock can be used to create a “poison pill” which is designed to deter a hostile bidder from buying a controlling interest in our stock without the approval of our Board of Directors. We have not adopted such a “poison pill;” but our Board of Directors has the ability to do so in the future, very rapidly and without stockholder approval.

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Advance notice requirements for director nominations and for new business to be brought up at stockholder meetings: Stockholders wishing to submit director nominations or raise matters to a vote of the stockholders must provide notice to us within very specific date windows and in very specific form in order to have the matter voted on at a stockholder meeting. This has the effect of giving our Board of Directors and management more time to react to stockholder proposals generally and could also have the effect of disregarding a stockholder proposal or deferring it to a subsequent meeting to the extent such proposal is not raised properly.

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No stockholder actions by written consent: No stockholder or group of stockholders may take actions rapidly and without prior notice to our Board of Directors and management or to the minority stockholders. Along with the advance notice requirements described above, this provision also gives our Board of Directors and management more time to react to proposed stockholder actions.

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Super majority requirement for stockholder amendments to the By-laws: Stockholder proposals to alter or amend our By-laws or to adopt new By-laws can only be approved by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding shares of our common stock.

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No ability of stockholders to call a special meeting of the stockholders: Only the Board of Directors or management can call special meetings of the stockholders. This could mean that stockholders, even those who represent a significant percentage of our shares of common stock, may need to wait for the annual meeting before nominating directors or raising other business proposals to be voted on by the stockholders.

In addition, the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporate Law govern us. These provisions may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or combining with us for a certain period of time.

These and other provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our By-laws and under Delaware law could discourage potential takeover attempts, reduce the price that investors might be willing to pay for shares of our common stock in the future and result in the market price being lower than it would be without these provisions.

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ITEM 6 — EXHIBITS.

Exhibit Number	Description
31.1	Certification of the President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2	Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1*	Certification of the President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2*	Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101**	Interactive Data Files

This exhibit is furnished herewith, but not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to liability under that section. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that we explicitly incorporate them by reference.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

VIRNETX HOLDING CORPORATION

By:	/s/ Kendall Larsen
	Name	Kendall Larsen

	Title	Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

	By:	/s/ Richard Nance
		Name	Richard H. Nance

		Title	Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and
			Principal Accounting Officer)
Date: November 09, 2012

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description
31.1	Certification of the President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2	Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1*	Certification of the President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2*	Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101**	Interactive Data Files

Positive
Negative
Uncertain
Constraining
Legalese
Litigous
Readability	H.S. freshman Good

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