“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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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.
LOL MCCFR, great way to put that.
LOL MCCFR, great way to put that.
Standard procedure, and expected. If Apple has to pay anything, it will be greatly reduced. (And Mirror Worlds won’t be disappointed either, since the whole game is to ask for much more than you really want, and get it “reduced” to your original target.)
——RM
Standard procedure, and expected. If Apple has to pay anything, it will be greatly reduced. (And Mirror Worlds won’t be disappointed either, since the whole game is to ask for much more than you really want, and get it “reduced” to your original target.)
——RM
I’m sure that Apple employs first-rate litigators, and if they ever pay anything out on these claims, I’d be surprised if it happens within two decades.
-jcr
I’m sure that Apple employs first-rate litigators, and if they ever pay anything out on these claims, I’d be surprised if it happens within two decades.
-jcr
Must be some huge kick backs in that district. They ALWAYS side with patent holders who sue for money.
Must be some huge kick backs in that district. They ALWAYS side with patent holders who sue for money.
Where’s Bizzarro with his pithy troll comments?
Where’s Bizzarro with his pithy troll comments?
What. A. Crock.
What. A. Crock.
@m159 – at least one person in that area is using a 24″ Intel iMac.
@KenC – in progress.
@ Professor David Gelernter – don’t buy that yacht just yet…
@jjjj – he apparently got slammed by MDN for an earlier post. Perhaps he is licking his wounds while formulating a new, unregistered alias.
@m159 – at least one person in that area is using a 24″ Intel iMac.
@KenC – in progress.
@ Professor David Gelernter – don’t buy that yacht just yet…
@jjjj – he apparently got slammed by MDN for an earlier post. Perhaps he is licking his wounds while formulating a new, unregistered alias.
Who is this company? Looks like a person who’s company went defunct some years ago? How big are they?
Who is this company? Looks like a person who’s company went defunct some years ago? How big are they?
Dear Apple, can you not dissolve your legal team in this case and hire a few hundred patent specialists for this price? Or you could just buy off this district and make an amusement park out of it.
Dear Apple, can you not dissolve your legal team in this case and hire a few hundred patent specialists for this price? Or you could just buy off this district and make an amusement park out of it.
@m159,
You’d be surprised at how many Mac users there are here in the Tyler area.
@kenc,
I’d prefer to just let Texas secede and become a republic of its own again…
@m159,
You’d be surprised at how many Mac users there are here in the Tyler area.
@kenc,
I’d prefer to just let Texas secede and become a republic of its own again…
@kenc,
Tyler is in smith county-
Just sayin…
@kenc,
Tyler is in smith county-
Just sayin…
Over at CNET the posts are just about 100% anti Apple on this case. Many like this votes for those saying how much Apple deserves it. A lot different over here. I wonder why the difference.
Over at CNET the posts are just about 100% anti Apple on this case. Many like this votes for those saying how much Apple deserves it. A lot different over here. I wonder why the difference.