“Apple Inc.’s victory in a patent-infringement case was left intact as the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a Texas company’s effort to revive a $208.5 million verdict against the computer maker,” Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg.
“The high court declined to hear a case in which closely held Mirror Worlds LLC said an appeals court erred in ruling that Apple didn’t infringe a software patent for a way to index and file documents,” Decker reports. “Mirror Worlds was co-founded by Yale University computer-science Professor David Gelernter.”
“The suit focused on Apple’s Spotlight file search technology used in its Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems,” Decker reports. “A federal jury in Texas awarded $208.5 million for each of three patents in October 2010. The trial judge overturned the verdict, saying Mirror Worlds failed to establish its case, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in September. The appeal to the Supreme Court involved one of the patents.”
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Hey, how bout them Apples!!!
This case only took 2.5 years from start to Supreme Court finality.
Apple’s fight against Samsung has taken longer and has yet to leave the trial court’s jurisdiction. There’s something very wrong going on in Judge Koh’s court.
Likely, it’s those huge checks to Koh from Samsung’s slush fund.
This case was for pocket change. The Samsung case involves billions. That, alone, would make a difference.
I dunno, I think there were originally 3 patents in question, all for $208m. $624m would not be far from the recalculated Samsung award.
Apple’s case against Samsung is far more complex and has multiple patents at issue. You can’t compare the two.
Texas?
What a surprise!