Apple loses patent-infringement trial over Cover Flow, Time Machine

Apple loses patent-infringement trial over Cover Flow, Time Machine
AppleInsider | Apple loses patent-infringement trial over Cover Flow, Time Machine

Apple has lost a patent case against its Cover Flow and Time Machine interfaces, despite some of the infringement charges from claimant Mirror Worlds being ruled invalid.

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It seems Apple is appealing the decision here. Apple don't like to lose. But who does?

Apple appeals $625.5 million ruling in Cover Flow patent dispute
AppleInsider | Apple appeals $625.5 million ruling in Cover Flow patent dispute

Apple has officially appealed a patent violation ruling issued last week, challenging a jury's decision to award $625.5 million to a company for infringement related to Spotlight, Cover Flow and Time Machine.

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And for one I hope Apple win this. Not cause I am for Apple. But the IT industry is based on taking other people's ideas and improving on them and selling the improved version. Everyone has done it since the 1980's. Why single out Apple for a long standing practice everyone does. Sue Apple then you have to sue MS, Google, RIM, etc etc. I think you get my point.

hmm. I never like these kind of lawsuits. Does apple have to prove that's where they got the idea.

Once I had a tune running through my head. I thought I had made it up myself, then when I played it on the piano for someone, they said, "Oh that's such and such by so-and-so", and here I was thinking I was all original, but did I hear the song first, then forget about it, only for it to get stuck in my head later, or was it just a coincidence that the songs were alike, and I really came up with it myself? How can you prove that sort of thing? It seems like you'd have to prove that I deliberately copied the song off as my own.

I don't know how these patent infringement suits work; maybe it's more concrete then that.

I don't know how these patent infringement suits work; maybe it's more concrete then that.

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It's all about the $$$. Sue Apple, sue Microsoft, or sue whoever has plenty of money. The lawyers get richer. We live in a litigating society.