KARACHI: Apple Inc. has asked a US judge to punish Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for their attorney's conduct by ordering that the South Korean company has infringed Apple's
phone design copyrights.
However, Samsung has called Apple’s demand “frivolous” and “unprecedented” in a legal brief filed later in the day.
Apple had sued Samsung last year in San Jose, California federal court, accusing it of copying the iPhone and iPad.
Samsung had countersued.
US District Judge Lucy Koh on Tuesday had barred Samsung’s attorneys from presenting some
evidence during opening statements.
Therefore, Samsung emailed the links of that material to the reporters later that afternoon,
along with a statement that “fundamental fairness requires that the jury decide the case
based on all the evidence.”
Samsung attorney John Quinn acknowledged in a court filing this week that he authorized the
press statement but said it was not designed to influence the jury.
“The members of the jury had already been selected at the time of the statement and the
transmission of these public exhibits, and had been specifically instructed not to read any
form of media relating to this case,” Quinn wrote.
Apple called his conduct “egregious, because it impugned the integrity of the court,”
according to its legal brief on Thursday.
The trial is set to resume on Friday.
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