Samsung to view
Apple-HTC settlement
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57553311-37/judge-samsung-gets-to-view-apple-htc-settlement-details/
Smartphone competitors Apple and HTC recently
agreed to a ten-year licencing deal on all current and future patents. The two
companies had been in a legal dispute since March 2010 when HTC were sued for
allegedly infringing twenty Apple iPhone patents. HTC later sued Apple for
infringement of patents relating to mobile devices, but all legal action
between the two companies was stopped when a confidential settlement agreement
was reached on 10 November 2012.
Samsung, who are involved in a long-running
legal dispute with Apple, then requested Apple provide a copy of the Apple-HTC
license agreement. Samsung claim some patents included in the Apple-HTC
agreement may be included in the Samsung-Apple legal dispute. Apple proposed
details of the agreement be released to Samsung’s lawyers but with various
information such as royalty rates edited. However, a California court ruled today
that Samsung will be able to view full details of the Apple-HTC agreement.
The judgement ruled an edited version of the
Apple-HTC agreement would not be acceptable because only Samsung lawyers would
view the document.
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