A Connecticut Company by the name of WhitServe has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The company states that Apple's Quick Look feature found in OS X Leopard through to Mountain Lion infringes their patent titled "System for sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory."
Shown in FIG. 4, WhitServe states that "the file selector module 420 may be provided in a separate window or box on the user interface."
The case was filed in the United States Connecticut District Court. The presiding Judge in this case is noted as being Judge Alan Thompson.
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