Apple granted patents on TimeMachine and CoverFlow

Just after Apple lost the patent infringement suit covering this, potentially costing them $208.5 million, it was awarded patents that should at least overlap with those named in the lawsuit.

That’s one hell of a coincidence.

Apple filed those patents quite some time ago and has been using technology like this since before Mirror Worlds, LLC applied for theirs. It’s going to be interesting how this plays out, considering the newly awarded patents and prior art on Apple’s side.