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"David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University, is appealing\u00A0U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis\u2019s overruling of his company Mirror Worlds\u2019 win against Apple in a patent infringement case, according to a New York Times report.\r\n\r\nGelernter is a computer scientist and professor who \u201Cbelieved that computers can free users from being filing clerks by organising their data\u201D and wrote a book on the subject in 1992 called\u00A0Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean.\r\n\r\nHe then founded the company Mirror Worlds Technologies along with a friend and released a product called Scopeware (shown in the screenshot below), which seems to have been a file management and versioning system. It \u201Ccreated a stream of varied documents\u2014word-processing files, e-mail, calendar items and presentations\u2014in a row of icons stretching into the past and future. Users could slide the icons back and forth to view them.\u201D\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMirror Worlds Technologies was shuttered in 2004 but a company by the name of Mirror Worlds, LLC (a subsidiary of Plainfield Specialty Holdings I, Inc.) sprang up and filed suit against Apple in Tyler, Texas for patent infringement on March 14, 2004. The primary offenders were Apple\u2019s Cover Flow, Spotlight and Time Machine features in both Mac OS X and iOS.\r\n\r\nIt is unclear how much of a stake\u00A0Gelernter himself had in this company and whether it did anything besides suing Apple based on its patents, but it was awarded $625.5 million in damages on October 4, 2010 by a jury. The smoking gun, it seems, was an email that Steve Jobs himself sent to people within Apple in 2001 after seeing an article about the app in The New York Times:\r\nPlease check out this software ASAP. It may be something for our future, and we may want to secure a license ASAP.\r\nIf uncontested, it would have been the \u201Cthe second-biggest jury verdict in 2010, and the fourth-biggest patent verdict in U.S. history\u201D, according to Bloomberg.\r\n\r\nBut contested it was. Apple appealed the jury\u2019s decision and earned a stay on the ruling till the end of November. The company\u2019s lawyers argued that the patent had already been sold twice for sums of $210,000 and $5 million and, in April this year, Judge Davis overruled the jury verdict after having reached the conclusion that Apple had not infringed on Mirror World\u2019s patents.\r\n\r\nDavid Gelernter, who claims to have \u201C2 percent of something\u201D to gain from a positive verdict, said he wasn\u2019t in it just for the money.\u00A0\u00A0\u201CI know my ideas\u2014our ideas\u2014when I see them on a screen,\u201D he said, and he\u2019d just like the record to state that he had a role in creating what we see today as the Cover Flow, Time Machine and Versions UI in various Apple software.\r\n\r\nMirror Worlds\u2019 appeal is currently in progress and we\u2019ll just have to wait to see if it can once again get a ruling in its favour."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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