Thursday, November 22, 2012

Uh-Oh....Apple Ordered to Give Samsung Details of HTC Settlement



Apple was ordered by a federal judge in its patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics to disclose licensing terms of a settlement with HTC Corp., Bloomberg told us.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, said in an order yesterday that financial terms of licensing agreements for other third parties have been disclosed in the patent-infringement case between Apple and Samsung. He ordered Apple to produce a copy of the agreement under an “attorneys- eyes-only” designation, meaning it won’t be publicly available.

In August, Apple won a $1.05 billion patent-infringement verdict in a jury trial against Samsung in San Jose. U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh scheduled a Dec. 6 hearing for Apple’s bid for a permanent U.S. sales ban on eight Samsung smartphone models and the Tab 10.1 tablet computer. She will also consider Samsung’s bid to get the verdict thrown out based on claims of juror misconduct…..

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