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As for long shots: "a firm founded by a computer science professor"

posted on Oct 05, 2010 12:32PM

Apple fighting jury order to pay $625.5 million in patent suit

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay US$625.5 million for violating patents owned by a firm founded by a computer science professor.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL) is challenging Friday's verdict from the federal court in Tyler, Texas, saying the court has not yet looked at some of its counterclaims.

If upheld, the verdict would be one of the largest in a patent suit. The plaintiff is Mirror Worlds, a company founded by David Gelernter of Yale University to commercialize his ideas.

The patents cover characteristic Mac features such as Cover Flow, which lets the users skim through album covers or other content as if they were leaves in a book. Another is Time Machine, which performs automatic backups.

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