[w0mbat]

Apple legally bought Cover Flow from the inventors, but was sued by patent troll Mirror Worlds LLC. Mirror Worlds was awarded $625.5 million in damages, but Apple appealed and won. Apple then got their own design patent on Cover Flow, but doesn't seem to use it any more.

[rchaud]

Didn't even know there was a patent for it. Cover Flow based UI has been possible via Swiper JS for years.

https://codepen.io/Pysilla/pen/qBdOVGQ