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Mirror Worlds, LLC sued Apple Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, asserting U.S. Patents 6,006,227, 6,638,313, 6,725,427, and 6,768,999 against Mac OS X and iOS features including Spotlight, Cover Flow, and Time Machine. A 2010 jury verdict for Mirror Worlds was vacated by JMOL in 2011; the Federal Circuit affirmed and the Supreme Court denied certiorari in 2013.
Mirror Worlds Technologies sued Apple and other defendants; after severance, Apple settled by paying $25 million for a fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to the '227 patent, announced July 8, 2016.
Severed from the earlier Mirror Worlds action, this case asserted the '227 patent against Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Microsoft, and Best Buy. It was dismissed on November 9, 2015, with Microsoft reportedly settling for $4.65 million.
Mirror Worlds sued Facebook/Meta asserting 6,006,227, 7,865,538, and 8,255,439 over News Feed, Timeline, and Activity Log. The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement; after a Federal Circuit reversal and remand, the district court again granted non-infringement, and the Federal Circuit affirmed on December 4, 2024.
Federal Circuit mandamus proceeding related to the Mirror Worlds v. Dell case, in which Dell's petition to stay or transfer to the Western District of Washington was denied. Citation: 600 F. App'x 728 (Fed. Cir. 2015).
Second appeal in the Meta case; the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's summary judgment of non-infringement, declining to reach invalidity because the patents had expired.
Listed as a U.S. Supreme Court case in the '227 patent's litigation family, associated with the Apple dispute; the narrative could not verify the disposition.
Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC sued Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) in S.D.N.Y. alleging that News Feed, Timeline, and Activity Log features infringed U.S. Patents 6,006,227, 7,865,538, and 8,255,439. The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement and dismissed on March 7, 2022; the Federal Circuit affirmed on December 4, 2024.