Judge Overturns Patent Suit against Apple

TYLER (AP) – A Tyler federal judge has overturned a federal jury’s order that Apple Inc. pay $625.5 million in damages for violating patents held by Mirror Worlds LLC, a small technology company. The decision, made by U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis in a Monday court filing, dismisses one of the largest verdicts in a patent lawsuit. In October, a federal jury in Tyler determined Apple infringed on three Mirror Worlds patents, which cover several features on Apple’s Mac computers, iPhones and iPods. In his ruling, Davis said that “Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury, but failed to lay a solid foundation sufficient to support important elements it was required to establish under the law.” There’s been no comment from either Apple or Mirror Worlds.