For Apple to have caused "Mirror Worlds" any harm, they would have to be competing with each other. Not so. The harm done is in one's granted patent monopoly b

For Apple to have caused "Mirror Worlds" any harm, they would have to be competing with each other. Not so. The harm done is in one's granted patent monopoly being infringed upon. In principle this is patents protecting the little guy's invention from being exploited by the big guy without compensation. There is of course a fine line between that and patent trolling. What gives? Probably one or both parties declined to enter a licensing agreement. Nothing. Vaporware. Scopeware was around in the early 2000s. If I remember correctly it had some traction in the legal profession, but fell very short of the vision described in Gelernter's books. That's why you've never heard of it.