Apple Inc claims Samsung Electronics Co violated a court order in a patent-infringement case by failing to produce source code as directed by a judge.
Samsung “only partially complied with” a court order requiring the company to produce source code for products such as its its 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer, which Apple claims violate its patents, according to a filing yesterday in US federal court in San Jose, California.
As of a Dec. 31 court-ordered deadline, Samsung produced source code for just one version of each of the products Apple says is guilty of infringement, and withheld code for all other versions, Apple said. A trial in the case is set for Aug. 25.
“At this point in the case, it is too late for Apple to make meaningful use of any late produced source code,” Apple said in the filing.
Expert reports in the case are due in less than two weeks, “which would leave insufficient time for Apple’s experts to analyze any new code,” Apple said.
The same court ruled on Dec. 3 against Apple’s request to block Samsung from selling its 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the US. That order followed an Australian court ruling that lifted an injunction on the tablet in the country.
Samsung, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, and Apple have filed at least 30 suits on four continents against each other since April last year.
In yesterday’s filing, Apple asked the court to prohibit Samsung from relying on the source code it failed to produce in defending the infringement claims.
Apple also said that because it must build a case against each version of the Samsung products it says are guilty of infringement, and it has been denied evidence required to do so, the court should rule that the products Samsung provided source code for to be “representative of all versions of that product.”
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