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Apple (AAPL) HAS FILED AN emerging motion seeking a stay of a Texas federal jury finding that the company violates three patents held by Mirror Worlds, a company created by Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter. The jury ruled that Apple should pay $208.5 million for each of the three alleged violations, or up to $625.5 million in total. The Wall Street Journal notes that the case would rank among the largest patent awards on record. The suit, filed in 2008, alleges that the Apple’s sensational iPod, iPhone and Mac products all violate Mirror Worlds patents on how data is organized in streams and displayed. The Journal notes that Apple technologies cited in the case include Cover Flow, which is used to surf through album art; Spotlight, which is used to conduct system-wide searches on computers; and Time Machine, software that backs up files.

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