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Apple sued by Mirror World for infringing four of its patents.
« on: October 05, 2010, 02:10:58 PM »
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The row revolves around technology Apple has used in three products; Spotlight, Time Machine and Cover Flow. Two of the patents cover ways to display similar documents in a pile that users can then flick through.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11475331

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Apple sued by Mirror World for infringing four of its patents.
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2010, 02:25:28 PM »
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Mirror Worlds founder David Gelertner said he was "tremendously grateful" to his lawyers after hearing the verdict.
One wonders if there are any employees other than lawyers... rolleyes.gif
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Apple sued by Mirror World for infringing four of its patents.
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2010, 10:34:15 PM »
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. . .display similar documents in a pile that users can then flick through.

This sounds a lot like the pile of stuff on my desk right now and some of that stuff has been here for years!  Maybe I've got prior art on this! Devilish2.gif
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