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What: For the third consecutive trading session, shares of VirnetX (AMEX: VHC ) jumped more than 10% on hopes that someone would make a big bid for its 4G patent portfolio.

So what: The story is beginning to get stale. Unless, that is, you're an investor in VirnetX shares. Institutions seem to keep revising their estimated value of VirnetX's portfolio, and then buying once convinced that one of the would-be 4G contenders -- from AT&T (NYSE: T ) to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) , among others -- will be forced to bid big or face being left behind