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Related Tuns Tope: Apple Incorporated Connect With Us on Twitter Follow StNITNational for breaking news and headlines. 'Miner List: Bowdenand Editors n NATIONAL Professor Gelernter had to fight for his life then. Now he is fighting to prove his contention that his innovations were pirated by Apple for its computers, iPhones and iPads. He did it once, and a company whose original incarnation he co-founded won a stunning jury verdict. but then an extraordinary judicial ruling took it all away. CI REUXILINEND ala warms ra UNKEDIN la SIGH IN TO ELWL PRtff REPAINTS a WORE M swims 1."Aile t.W KARM 4GWItA GNgI He has said little publicly about the case, and Apple did not provide comment. But with the appeal now under way. he agreed to talk about it — including an internal Apple e-mail from Steve Jobs that left one patent law expert not affiliated with the case saying. simply. "Wow." last October, a jury awarded 5625 million to Professor Gelemter's company, Mirror Worlds. The verdict, one of the largest patent awards in history, seemed an astonishing windfall for the professor, now 56.1 had the feeling of everybody looking at me and thinking, 'There's a half billion dollars on the hoof!' A private jet service sent an invitation to' oin our elite clientele.' - Log one what our Mends aro ...vm Proxy BMW 'Mars Ma? What's Popular Now 13 Hid:stead. Star Show-Jumping Horse. Dies During Competition Geoffrey Multi Wurs New York Marathon in Course Record f Lag In With ace', ' PS by Google what's this? Plains a Cohen •Oul Tarn The most successful vlsisIbMawo law fem. $7 0 dhoti reefwer)0 Suffering from MDD? Persislent deprossico symptoms? Read more abort oar f*ZOitCh se.dy Trainman:al Therapy MIS tarn MIern9Ii. Id Therapy • Over 330 attliOne00 WAS CtinC% personal akin Allmon Stroke Recall Coe? Gel Hop Now Talk lo a LocalAilment Or Free' ERISA Law Firm &USA clam soma or mrrnnmee? 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When Joseph Diamante, the lead lawyer for Mirror Worlds. called his client about the decision, he was distraught at having to deliver such bad news. But Professor Gelernter gently said, "Joe. I've been through worse." The bomb that exploded in June pm blinded Professor Gelernter in one eye and severely damaged his right hand, which he covers with a glove. He suffered extensive internal injuries as well. and a legacy of surgeries and chronic vain. But, as Mr. Diamante learned, David Hillel Gelernter does not let trouble daunt him. He sent an upbeat e-mail to colleagues less than two months after the bombing that said, "All in all, I am the luckiest man alive (emphasis on alive). Surviving the explosion was evidently a pretty neat trick on my part." he wrote, and joked that in computer science, 'one decent typing hand and an intact head is all you really need." Long comfortable in the academic realm. where his work anticipated the interactivity of the World Wide Web and cloud computing, he tried business. Mirror Worlds (the name came from one of his offbeat books about adapting technology to people instead of the other way around) offered a way to break out of the numberless files and folders that clutter computer desktops and make information hard to find. The product, Scopeware, created a stream of varied documents — word-processing files, e-mail. calendar items and presentations — in a row of icons stretching into the past and future. Users could slide the icons back and forth to view them. George Gilder. the technology analyst, called it "elegant, easy, natural and beautiful,' and predicted, 'It will prevail." It did not, at least as part of Mirror Worlds. The company marketed its product to businesses and state agencies across the country, but sales never really took off, and the company closed it. doors in 2004. From 2005 on. Apple introduced new versions of its software, and elements of three fundamental new technologies — Spotlight, Cover Flow and Time Machine — looked and behaved more than a little like Professor Gelemter's brainchildren. Mirror Worlds, now owned by a hedge fund, sued Apple in 2008 in Tyler, Tex, a place with a reputation for friendliness toward infringement claims. Among the documents obtained from Apple was the e-mail Mr. Jobs sent in 2001 to his lieutenants after seeing an article in The New York Times about Sconeware. "Please check out this software ASAP," he wrote. "It may be something for our future, and we may want to secure a license ASAP." An Apple executive at the time said in a deposition that 'this was the first time I recall having received a specific mail to look at a company or its technology" from Mr. Jobs. Apple subsequently met with Mirror Worlds. but nothing came of the discussions. Jeanne C. Fromer. a patent law expert at Fordham Law School in New York, called the e-mail from Mr. Jobs "as close as you get to a smoking gun' Peter J. Toren, a patent litigator. summed up with a single word: "Wow." The jury seemed to agree. The enormous verdict pushed a hot button in the technology world, where those who sue technology companies are often derided as greedy patent trolls. But Mr. Toren said Professor Gelemter is "not a patent troll — this is clearly a brilliant guy" who "clearly had a case." The rumpled scholar sat discussing the dispute on a recent afternoon in his high-ceilinged living room, which was crowded with books and his paintings. A parrot named Ike provided the occasional squawk, and sunlight streamed over the goo pipes of an organ that his older son, At Long Last, a Glimpse ail Shipbuilding Past . Weighing Pentagon Cuts. 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