US District Judge Leonard Davis threw out a US$625.5 million patent infringement verdict against Apple involving its Cover Flow, Time Machine and Spotlight technology for the Mac.
In 2008, Mirror Worlds filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Apple of infringing on four of the company's patent for a "document stream operating system" and its associated information management system. The lawsuit cited Apple's Cover Flow interface, its backup application Time Machine, and its search application Spotlight. Mirror Worlds received its four patents before it disbanded in 2003.
In October 2010, a judge in
