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Apple legally bought Cover Flow from the inventors, but was sued by patent troll Mirror Worlds LLC. Mirror Worlds was awarded $625.5 million in damages, but Ap
by w0mbat 6y ago
Apple legally bought Cover Flow from the inventors, but was sued by patent troll Mirror Worlds LLC.
Mirror Worlds was awarded $625.5 million in damages, but Apple appealed and won.
Apple then got their own design patent on Cover Flow, but doesn't seem to use it any more.
- rchaud 6y agoDidn't even know there was a patent for it. Cover Flow based UI has been possible via Swiper JS for years. https://codepen.io/Pysilla/pen/qBdOVGQ https://codepen.io/Pysilla/pen/qBdOVGQ