Since lying and cheating are pervasive ethics at Samsung (see: recent benchmarking results), Samsung of course got their hands on a copy of this agreements in order to help negotiate negotiate their own deals with Nokia. Nokia told the court.
Samsung and their firm and busy lying to the court and hiding. However, the court has subpoena powers. At minimum Samsung's external legal firm stands to be censured.
Oh come on, this is silly.
You don't think Apple manipulate benchmarks and statistics?
Or deny product faults and quietly settle years later e.g. iPhone 4 Antenna?
Or how about e-book price fixing?!!
It's ridiculous that people always assume foreign companies lie, cheat and steal, whereas homegrown companies are more kosher than a rabbi. The same thing happens in sport and politics of course. I guess humans just can't lose that tribal mentality.
With the exception of Apple and Motorola, literally every single OEM we’ve
worked with ships (or has shipped) at least one device that runs this silly
CPU optimization.
Didn't they hold an entire press conference, invite everyone and say (essentially) "we don't think there's a problem; most phones have similar issues; to anyone complaining, we're offering free iPhone cases" ?
That doesn't sound like "quietly settling" to me.
I'm sure there are dozens of millions of users that can't make a phone call because of the antenna problem. I wonder why they don't complain.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung#Controversies 2. http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709688/samsung-25-years-...
+Samsung said it needed some confidential documents from Apple for its legal defense.
+The judge ordered that Apple must give the confidential documents to Samsung's lawyers, but that the lawyers couldn't share them
+Samsung's lawyers shared the documents with the company
+Now Samsung has illegally obtained knowledge of secret information that Apple and its partners had
It sounds like it's their legal team who are at fault. Did Samsung break into the law offices and steal this information?
If I were king, I would revoke the right to practice law for at least 5 years for the attorneys involved, a $1 Billion or 50% of that yearly earnings fine for Samsung and a order not to use the info illegally obtained. The last one is maybe useless, but still, you never know, let them wonder if Apple might sue them.
Samsung has to pay for what their legal team did, right or wrong. After all they hired and trust them with everything.
That's reasonable, I guess, I mean the law firm representing Samsung did screw up, I can understand punishing them.
> a $1 Billion or 50% of that yearly earnings fine for Samsung
Those pants...why are you putting them on your head?
> Samsung has to pay for what their legal team did, right or wrong. After all they hired and trust them with everything.
Yes, they hired a law firm. They have to pay the law firm the amount that the two parties agreed on. Now, the law firm screwed up. However, unless you have evidence of wrongdoing on Samsung's part, this is just foaming at the mouth crazy talk. If anything, Samsung was also wronged by their law firm by being put in this position.
Mr. Melin recounts that to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that “all information leaks.” Mr. Melin also reports that Dr. Ahn and Samsung then proceeded to use his knowledge of the terms of the Apple- Nokia license to gain an unfair advantage in their negotiations with Nokia, by asserting that the Apple-Nokia terms should dictate terms of a Samsung-Nokia license.' http://allthingsd.com/20131003/apple-accuses-samsung-of-shar...
Even among liars and cheaters, Samsung stands out.