Back in 2008, a company called Mirror Worlds filed a patent infringement suit against Apple alleging that a number of OS X features infringed upon one of its patents. The accused features included Cover Flow, Time Machine, and OS X's Spotlight search feature.
In October of 2010, Mirror Worlds won a $625.5 million judgement against Apple. At the time, the damages amount was the fourth largest patent judgement in U.S. history. Apple, naturally, appealed and in April of 2011 a federal judge reversed the judgement.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court refused to consider Mirror Worlds' recent attempt to have $208.5 million of the damages award reinstated.
Bloomberg reports:
