Judge Inverts a Previous Decision of a Patent Suit worth $625.5Million against Apple

A federal judge has now inverted the decision, previously taken by the federal jury which found Apple Inc. responsible the violation of several patents held by another company and asked it to pay up $625.5 million in damages. This decision was taken by the U.S. District Judge, Leonard Davis in Tyler, Texas, as the announcement came publicly on Monday as the court filing was completed. This dismissal is undoubtedly one of the largest patent infringement verdicts ever in conflict.

In the ruling, the judge informed the company, Mirror Worlds LLC that "Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury, but failed to lay a solid foundation sufficient to support important elements it was required to establish under the law." Previously back in October, a federal jury in Tyler had declared that Apple is actually guilty of infringement specifically on the three patents very rightfully granted to Mirror Worlds.

The features in conflict and which were in allegations to be infringed included the software’s used in all Apple's Mac computers, iPhones and iPods. Firstly, Cover Flow feature of iTunes which allows the users to smoothly flip through album covers just like they’re playing with a stack of cards. Secondly the software titled, Time Machine, functional in keeping automatic backups; and lastly the Spotlight software, which is responsible for searching computer hard drives were all under huge conflict.

According to the previous decision of the jury, taken in October last year, Apple was found guilty and liable to compensate Mirror Worlds with $208.5 million for every patent violation which was proved in court. Whereas, the super company, Apple Inc. had requested the U.S. District Court to allow them some time for enforcing the jury award. Which implied that there were still many issues which was left unaddressed in the proceedings.

Mirror Worlds, is actually a very tiny company in comparison to Apple Inc., it was founded by a single Yale University professor, David Gelernter. The initial aims of the company were just to bring forward the thoughts and dream of David in the actual physical market as a competitor. Mirror Worlds actually first sued Apple in 2008, when the first filling took place. Both the lawyers and representatives of Mirror Worlds and Apple Inc. refused to give any comments on the proceedings of the case.