Apple and Samsung return to court to discuss breach of confidentiality

Samsung and Apple — the South Korean and Silicon Valley tech companies that have been exchanging courtroom barbs over the last few months — are now in dispute over information being wrongfully exposed.

In response to this revelation, Apple is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to bar members of Samsung's legal team and executive Seungho Ahn to be involved with license agreements for two years, Computerworld reported.

How did Apple come to this conclusion?

A testimony from Paul Melin, Nokia's chief intellectual property officer, said in court that Ahn explained the details of Apple and Nokia's licensing agreement — information that was only given viewing clearance to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the law firm representing Samsung.

Besides Nokia, Samsung was notified about licensing agreements with Sharp, Philips and Ericsson.

Apple claims that Quinn Emanuel worked with "unclean hands," and it wants the firm to not be involved with "executing any new protective orders." However, this sanction would only last two years and would not impact the two other lawsuits Quinn Emanuel is a part of because those cases are in later stages.

Recently, Apple was able to win one of their cases against Samsung. Although the settlement decreased from $1.05 billion to $930 million, it comes to show how important it is to work with a lawyer who can meet a majority of company's needs.

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