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Apple loses, challenges Cover Flow-related lawsuit
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Monday, October 4, 2010
News Category: Apple, iPhone, iPod, iTunes
Apple was recently ordered by a jury to pay damages to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing the latter’s patents related to the display of digital documents, but is challenging the verdict. Mirror Worlds, a software business started by a Yale University computer-science professor David Gelernter, claimed that Apple’s Cover Flow and Time Machine display methods infringed on its patents, and was awarded $208.5 million in damages for each of the patents infringed. Apple has asked U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis for an emergency stay of the verdict, claiming that there are outstanding issues with two of the three patents, and also claimed Mirror Worlds would be “triple-dipping” if it were to collect the full $208.5 million for each of the three patents. Bloomberg reports that Davis also is considering Apple’s request, filed before the verdict, to rule that the company doesn’t infringe two of the patents, which would lead him to strike the amount of damages attributed to those two patents.
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I HATE COVER FLOW.
Posted by cf hater on October 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM (PDT)
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I LOVE COVER FLOW
Posted by theMISCH on October 5, 2010 at 6:32 AM (PDT)