A U.S. district court judge settled a patent lawsuit
between Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) and Mirror Worlds in favour of Apple saying
that there was insufficient evidence that the iPhone maker had infringed on
Mirror's patents.
Earlier a Texas jury has found Apple liable for
infringing several of Mirror's patents and awarded it over $600 million in
damages. However the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in
Washington set aside the jury verdict. Judge Davis, on Tuesday ruled that
Mirror World's had failed to provide sufficient evidence of infringement.
"..The necessary evidence was not put before the jury to support the
verdict of infringement or damages."
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Mirror Worlds, a company founded by Yale university computer
science Professor David Gelerntner, had asserted that the joint operation of
Apple's Cover Flow graphical user Interface, Time Machine ad Spotlight Searches
infringed on its own patents for a similar feature.
The federal circuit admitted that Apple had avoided
several of the patents claims because its mechanism did not include the
equivalent of a cursor or pointer as required by the claims.
Apple is engaged in several lawsuits - a dozen of them
across four continents - with several companies over patent infringements.
However, in most cases it has been Apple which has initiated the lawsuits as it
feels that other companies were infringing on its patents.
Recently a San Jose federal court awarded it more than
a billion dollars in damages in a patents dispute with Samsung, upholding its
claims that the Korean company had copied the designs of its mobile devices.
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