Apple challenges $625.5M patent-infringement award

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"Apple Inc. is challenging a federal jury's order that it pay $625.5 million in damages for violating a small technology company's patents.

"If upheld, the verdict would be one of the largest in a patent lawsuit.

"Last Friday, the jury in Tyler, Texas, found that Apple infringed on three patents held by Mirror Worlds LLC, a company founded by Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter to commercialize his ideas"

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