Back in 2008, a company called Mirror Worlds filed a patent infringement suit against Apple alleging that a number of OS X features infringed upon one of its patents. The accused features included Cover Flow, Time Machine, and OS X’s Spotlight search feature.
In October of 2010, Mirror Worlds won a $625.5 million judgement against Apple. At the time, the damages amount was the fourth largest patent judgement in U.S. history. Apple, naturally, appealed and in April of 2011 a federal judge reversed the judgement.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court refused to consider Mirror Worlds’ recent attempt to have $208.5 million of the damages award reinstated.
Bloomberg reports:
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.
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. Mirror Worlds was co-founded by Yale University computer-science Professor David Gelernter.
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