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Apple wins ouster of 625-million-dollar verdict
Apr 5, 2011, 19:23 GMT
San Francisco - A US court has overturned a jury's decision to penalize Apple 625 million dollars for infringing on three patents.
The ruling in October had imposed a 208-million-dollar penalty on Apple for each of three patents owned by a company called Mirror Worlds, which Apple infringed upon with its CoverFlow and Time Machine technologies.
Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court in Tyler, Texas, vacated the award, saying there was 'insufficient evidence' for the jury's finding.
'In this case, Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury, but it failed to lay a solid foundation sufficient to support important elements it was required to establish under the law,' he wrote in a 44-page ruling.
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