Mirror Worlds vs. Apple, Inc.

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regards an “animated graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof. The process or period in which an image transitions to another forms no part of the claimed design.” (U.S. Patent D609715 description). Users of the upgraded iTunes, iPhone iPod Touch and iPad products will recognize this patented design when sorting through digital pictures of album covers in either system. However, a separate company by the name of Mirror Worlds, LLC filed an infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc. in March 2008 regarding three of Mirror Worlds’ own patents covering intellectual property; one of which regards the same technology as Apple’s Cover Flow. On October 1, 2010 Mirror Worlds was awarded $208.5 million in damages for each of the three patent infringements by a federal jury in Tyler, Texas. Apple Inc. filed a counterclaim on October 3, “an emergency motion to stay entry of jury verdict and judgment by Apple Inc.” (Civil Action No. 6:08 CV 88, 2010). Apple Inc. ...

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the user. “The documents can include text, pictures, animations, software programs, or any other type of data.” (LexisNexis Civil Action No. 6:08 CV 88, 2010).

These patents held by Mirror Worlds also concern hard drive searching software, software supporting automatic backup on a hard drive and the aforementioned software regarding streaming documents and the manner in which they are viewed. The method of the streaming software include “creating a file comprising a collection of documents, displaying a graphical representation of the pile, and browsing the pile by pointing a cursor at a particular item to reveal an indicia for the particular item,” in reference to the “transparency” ...

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