Apple ordered to pay $625.5 million for copyright infringement
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Apple has been ordered by a jury in Tyler, Texas to pay the owners of Mirror Worlds LLC $625.5 million for three copyright infringements.
From the article:
"In 1991, before access to the World Wide Web was mainstream, Gelernter published a book called "Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean." The volume laid out a vision of the future in which people can access and interpret unprecedented volumes of real-time, real-world data using a computer.
A decade later, Gelernter's Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. launched its first and only product, Scopeware, which could organize all sorts of information on a timeline or "lifestream." It looked like a cascade of index cards on the screen, each representing a unique piece of e-mail, a Web page, spreadsheet or other document, updated constantly as new items arrive. From descriptions at the time, Scopeware had a similar look to and functionality as Apple's Cover Flow, which is built into the company's Mac OS X operating system and the software that runs on iPods and other devices."
Back in March of this year Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC, maker of Google’s Nexus One phone.
more at the article...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/05/apple-cover-flow-patent_n_750881.html
From the article:
"In 1991, before access to the World Wide Web was mainstream, Gelernter published a book called "Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean." The volume laid out a vision of the future in which people can access and interpret unprecedented volumes of real-time, real-world data using a computer.
A decade later, Gelernter's Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. launched its first and only product, Scopeware, which could organize all sorts of information on a timeline or "lifestream." It looked like a cascade of index cards on the screen, each representing a unique piece of e-mail, a Web page, spreadsheet or other document, updated constantly as new items arrive. From descriptions at the time, Scopeware had a similar look to and functionality as Apple's Cover Flow, which is built into the company's Mac OS X operating system and the software that runs on iPods and other devices."
Back in March of this year Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC, maker of Google’s Nexus One phone.
more at the article...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/05/apple-cover-flow-patent_n_750881.html
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