“Apple has lost a patent case against its Cover Flow and Time Machine interfaces, despite some of the infringement charges from claimant Mirror Worlds being ruled invalid,” Josh Ong reports for AppleInsider.
“Mirror Worlds LLC filed the lawsuit in 2008, alleging that Apple had infringed on patents for creating “streams” of documents sorted by time. According to Bloomberg, a federal jury sided with Mirror Worlds on Friday, although specific details of the ruling were unavailable,” Ong reports. “The judgment wasn’t completely one-sided, though. Legal news site Law360 noted (registration required) in August that some of Mirror Worlds’ claims again Apple had been ruled invalid for ‘indefiniteness.'”
Ong reports, “The lawsuit was submitted to the Tyler County court in eastern Texas, an area known for favoring patent owners. In a study by Stanford Law professor Mark Lemley, an analysis of ten years of patent lawsuits revealed that the Eastern District of Texas has a higher than average claimant win percentage and a better chance of going to trial.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Cover Flow is a useless shit anyway. I don’t use it in any application.
@knucklehead buster
Favorite post of all time.
@knucklehead buster
Favorite post of all time.
Will all the coverflow copycat software UI, including many built in flex and silverlight, be notified too?
Will all the coverflow copycat software UI, including many built in flex and silverlight, be notified too?
@ Cubert
i’m personally not impressed with the “similarities”. besides a cascading effect (off to the side), this looks nothing like anything i would ever cry plagarism at.
@ Cubert
i’m personally not impressed with the “similarities”. besides a cascading effect (off to the side), this looks nothing like anything i would ever cry plagarism at.
When you apply for a patent, a patent examiner, after intellligent and proper due diligence is supposed to issue a “challenge” which consists of examples and possible other similar inventions and prior art… You then have to satisfy that examiner that the examples are different or acknowledge them etc…
If anyone has ever been through this process they would be appalled at how stupid and un-comprehending some of these examiners are and how little they understand the technology or patent that they are issuing challenges to, let alone how little of the English language they comprehend…
It once took me 5 years to just get a moron at the US patent office to understand my challenge of their challenge…
When you apply for a patent, a patent examiner, after intellligent and proper due diligence is supposed to issue a “challenge” which consists of examples and possible other similar inventions and prior art… You then have to satisfy that examiner that the examples are different or acknowledge them etc…
If anyone has ever been through this process they would be appalled at how stupid and un-comprehending some of these examiners are and how little they understand the technology or patent that they are issuing challenges to, let alone how little of the English language they comprehend…
It once took me 5 years to just get a moron at the US patent office to understand my challenge of their challenge…
” Everything’s broke” except Apple, that’s why it’s Apples time in the sun.
” Everything’s broke” except Apple, that’s why it’s Apples time in the sun.
Wow, such animosity towards the Texas legal system when California is the haven for frivilous class action lawsuits. I was recently involved with a class action suit involving one (1) plaintiff that alleged millions of dollars in damages for a single product that did not work for them. Any bodily injury? NO! Did they attempt to get a refund? NO! What was the price of the product? $50. Will it go to trial? NO! All they want is the maximum amount of money they can get by shaking someone down. That state should be pushed into the ocean. I have no sympathy for the jerks there that prey on honest people. In Europe, the loser pays the legal fees and court costs. Here, someone files a suit and it costs you $100k just to defend yourself. So, you buy the jerks off. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Instead it is “Innocent but you have to buy off the plaintiff or else your legal fees will put you out of business.”
Wow, such animosity towards the Texas legal system when California is the haven for frivilous class action lawsuits. I was recently involved with a class action suit involving one (1) plaintiff that alleged millions of dollars in damages for a single product that did not work for them. Any bodily injury? NO! Did they attempt to get a refund? NO! What was the price of the product? $50. Will it go to trial? NO! All they want is the maximum amount of money they can get by shaking someone down. That state should be pushed into the ocean. I have no sympathy for the jerks there that prey on honest people. In Europe, the loser pays the legal fees and court costs. Here, someone files a suit and it costs you $100k just to defend yourself. So, you buy the jerks off. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Instead it is “Innocent but you have to buy off the plaintiff or else your legal fees will put you out of business.”
Mac-Daddio:
The first question a patent lawyer will ask a private individual who wants to patent something is if they have enough money to defend a patent? Basically the shakedown is also a way to steal first and then see how cheap a price you can get away paying in leu of ful out litigation…sound like a familiar MO?
Mac-Daddio:
The first question a patent lawyer will ask a private individual who wants to patent something is if they have enough money to defend a patent? Basically the shakedown is also a way to steal first and then see how cheap a price you can get away paying in leu of ful out litigation…sound like a familiar MO?
Okay, now what?
Okay, now what?
Sheesh, Gary seems to have hit a nerve with some folks on here.
When it comes to lawyers aren’t ALL AMERICAN lawyers slimy and duschbags!
I have sadly had the misfortune of having to hire a USA based lawyer once, that fat retard wouldn’t pick up his pen for less than $500!
Sheesh, Gary seems to have hit a nerve with some folks on here.
When it comes to lawyers aren’t ALL AMERICAN lawyers slimy and duschbags!
I have sadly had the misfortune of having to hire a USA based lawyer once, that fat retard wouldn’t pick up his pen for less than $500!
Stevie will just call in a plague of Locusts to end this. I mean, that’s part of what he learned in the wilderness, right?
Stevie will just call in a plague of Locusts to end this. I mean, that’s part of what he learned in the wilderness, right?
It’s a United States Federal Court, not a Texas state or county court.
It’s a United States Federal Court, not a Texas state or county court.
And Bush talked about solving frivilous lawsuits…start with this one.
Loser pays is the only solution.
And Bush talked about solving frivilous lawsuits…start with this one.
Loser pays is the only solution.