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A US judge has told Apple it had better cough up its whole unredacted licensing agreement with HTC in the fruity firm's case against Samsung, a move that could help the Korean company fight a potential sales ban in the country. Apple had said that it would give Samsung's lawyers access to the document, but it would be blacking …

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      1. Vic
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        > So they MUST be relevant.

        No, they *may* be relevant.

        The Judge has already said he's not asure about what Samsung are doing here, but he's being scrupulously fair; the rules of discovery permit Samsung's lawyers to know the content of this deal, and he's damn well going to let them know, even if he doesn't think it will help.

        Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. None of us know, because we haven't seen the HTC agreement. If it does contain what Samsung thinks it does, it will scupper Apple's "irreparable harm" claim. But it might not contain any such thing.

        Vic.

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  2. Arachnoid
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    its still Apple getting the technology to market.

    If you as a company design some new fan dabby dozzy hardware then you take it to who will pay the most for it and in the case of the retina screens it was Apple it could well have been HTC or Samsung had they paid more dosh.So as they say the shoe may have been on the other foot by now but as it is its not.

    Apple to their credit are good at doing a Lord Alan Sugar technique of bringing several low cost items together and selling them at a premium.

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    1. Trevor Marron
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      Re: its still Apple getting the technology to market.

      No, it is now Google. The Google Nexus 10 has a higher resolution screen, Retina is just a trade mark.

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