“Apple Inc. is challenging a jury verdict last week in which the computer maker was ordered to pay as much as $625.5 million to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing patents related to how documents are displayed digitally,” Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg.
“Apple asked U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis for an emergency stay of the Oct. 1 verdict, saying there are outstanding issues on two of the three patents. Apple said patent owner Mirror Worlds would also be ‘triple dipping’ if it were able to collect $208.5 million on each of the patents,” Decker reports. “Closely held Mirror Worlds, founded by Yale University computer-science Professor David Gelernter, sued in 2008, claiming Apple’s iPod music device, iPhone and Mac computers infringed three patents for a way documents are displayed on a computer screen.”
Decker reports, “Davis also is considering Apple’s request, filed before the verdict, to rule the company doesn’t infringe two of the patents. The judge said that if he granted that request, he’d strike the amount of damages attributed to those two patents… The case is Mirror Worlds LLC v. Apple Inc., 08cv88, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler).”
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Verdict will be reversed.
Verdict will be reversed.
Fist post!
Fist post!
Apple should pay the dirty bastards for only the patents they violated. Then change cover flow. It needs an update already.
Apple should pay the dirty bastards for only the patents they violated. Then change cover flow. It needs an update already.
Tyler is definitely NOT Apple country. They all use Dells running windows, and likely think Apple products are some sort of Commie plot. The closest Apple retail stores are in Dallas, but they would have to leave the nineteenth century to go there. I suggest the company open a big store in Tyler; it would pay off in future patent litigation.
Tyler is definitely NOT Apple country. They all use Dells running windows, and likely think Apple products are some sort of Commie plot. The closest Apple retail stores are in Dallas, but they would have to leave the nineteenth century to go there. I suggest the company open a big store in Tyler; it would pay off in future patent litigation.
Apple should pay a fair price for IP it uses. The $625.5 million is ridiculous! It is BS like this, and the East Texas court that is endangering the patent system for those of us who use it as intended, not as a “Get Rich Quick” scheme.
Apple should pay a fair price for IP it uses. The $625.5 million is ridiculous! It is BS like this, and the East Texas court that is endangering the patent system for those of us who use it as intended, not as a “Get Rich Quick” scheme.
Ouch
Ouch
@m159 – Best Buy Longview and Tyler do have Apple store-in-a-stores, but yeah this region needs at least a family-owned Apple store, if not a company one.
@m159 – Best Buy Longview and Tyler do have Apple store-in-a-stores, but yeah this region needs at least a family-owned Apple store, if not a company one.
“They all use Dells running windows, and likely think Apple products are some sort of Commie plot.”
That’s funny! I thought everything in the US nowadays was a Commie plot, or at least a Socialist one, or maybe a Nazi one whilst simultaneously being a secret Muslim plot to overthrow society.
If only there was a TV channel I could watch that could confirm all of my fears.
“They all use Dells running windows, and likely think Apple products are some sort of Commie plot.”
That’s funny! I thought everything in the US nowadays was a Commie plot, or at least a Socialist one, or maybe a Nazi one whilst simultaneously being a secret Muslim plot to overthrow society.
If only there was a TV channel I could watch that could confirm all of my fears.
@ET – From what I understand, the reason patent stuff is so popular in East Texas is that the court only allows two weeks of discovery (or whatever they call it) for the company being sued. In a lot of systems, the big company will just wait and wait in the process of putting their case together, until the little guy runs out of money and has to drop the suit. This is good for the little guy (when he’s in the right), but bad for frivolous / vague patent suits.
@ET – From what I understand, the reason patent stuff is so popular in East Texas is that the court only allows two weeks of discovery (or whatever they call it) for the company being sued. In a lot of systems, the big company will just wait and wait in the process of putting their case together, until the little guy runs out of money and has to drop the suit. This is good for the little guy (when he’s in the right), but bad for frivolous / vague patent suits.
Let’s give Tyler County, Texas back to the Mexicans.
Let’s give Tyler County, Texas back to the Mexicans.
@MCCFR…
try MSNBC
@MCCFR…
try MSNBC
Apple can show prior art in HyperCard, this is a frivolous case.
Apple can show prior art in HyperCard, this is a frivolous case.
Idiot hick judge who doesn’t understand the technologies involved, therefore what constitutes prior art too…How the hell can he make any determination of fact?
This will be reversed on appeal and settled for nuisance value+ to avoid further legal expenses relating to the appellate process all the way up to the supreme court.