Judge Reverses $625.5 Million Verdict Against Apple
Judge Reverses $625.5 Million Verdict Against Apple
Posted 04/06/2011 at 6:50am
| by Paul Lilly
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A federal judge in Tyler, Texas this week ruled that Apple didn't infringe a patent owned by Mirror Worlds LLC, throwing out a $625.5 million patent infringement verdict over how documents are displayed on a computer screen, according to a Bloomberg report. At the same time, the judge did uphold the validity of the three Mirror Worlds patents, but said the damage award was too high.
"Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury, but it failed to lay a solid foundation sufficient to support important elements it was required to establish under the law," U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis wrote.
Mirror Worlds, which was founded by a Yale University professor, sued Apple in 2008 alleging that Mac computers infringed its patents over document display technology. In particular, Mirror Worlds took issue with Spotlight, Time Machine, and Cover Flow features in Apple's Mac OSes.
A jury agreed with Mirror Worlds back in October, awarding the company $208.5 million in damages for each of the three patents. However, Apple was successful in arguing that the damages were too high and shouldn't be added together.
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MrBlueCheese
April 06, 2011 at 2:57pm
They threw out the verdict, so what does Apple think they owe?
MattyMattMatt
April 06, 2011 at 10:52am
Too bad. We really need Apple to bleed dry and die off. They're horrible for the industry.
Engelsstaub
April 06, 2011 at 3:48pm
Yeah. They're not very innovative, are they?
Maybe if others in the "industry" got some stones and decided to lead instead of follow (and when I say follow I mean do so in a piss-poor way,) the industry would be less "Apple-like."
There's also the coercion. I remember the last time I made a computer purchase I was forced to buy a Mac. It happened like this: I was minding my own goddamned business in Best Buy, looking to purchase a new Asus laptop, when out of nowhere comes the jack-booted Apple-Polizei. They grabbed me by the hair and dragged me over to the (small) Apple booth wherein from thence they proceeded to rub my face in a MacBook Pro. Needless to say, I wasn't leaving that store in one piece without at least a Magic Mouse and a subscription to Mobile Me.
It's everywhere: glowing fruit and no options.
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