Apple has this week agreed to settle two patent disputes – that saw Mirror World Technologies cite ownership over the software mechanisms which lie behind the company’s popular ‘CoverFlow,’ and Time Machine features.
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“The patent (No. 6,006,227) dates back to 1999, covering a system that stores documents in a stream ordered chronologically, similar to Apple’s Cover Flow or Time Machine,” reports Husain Sumra for MacRumors.
The Cupertino company has agreed to settle the dispute with a swift $25 Million payout to the firm, through which it will gain “a fully paid up non-exclusive license” to the patent in question, in addition to “certain rights to other patents in Network-1’s portfolio.”
