Patent holder sues Apple over Quick Look file viewer
A nonpracticing entity is suing Apple, alleging that versions of its Mac OS X operating system infringe on a file viewer patent it holds.
WhitServe, which owns intellectual property but doesn’t make any real products, filed a complaint today in U.S. District Court for Connecticut claiming that Apple’s Quick Look violates patent No. 7,921,139, a system for “sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory.”
Introduced in 2007 with Mac OS X Leopard, Apple’s Quick Look allows users a convenient way to preview the contents of a document before opening it fully in an application. By…
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