Apple wins access to Google, Motorola documents A US judge has ruled that Apple should be allowed access to details about Google's acquisition of Motorola, despite the fact that Google isn't involved in the pending Apple/Motorola cases. Apple has been fighting a proxy war with Google, suing the makers of Android handsets for various patent infringements as it can't take on …
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Don't know why you're confused.
That's exactly the point.
Even with the pending lawsuit, Google is buying Moto. So when Google does their due dilligence any ongoing litigatagion is material to the merger and any documents discussed is pretty much fair game.
Good lawyer-ing on Apple's part.
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The judge can rule it, but I can't see the relevance at all
Google isn’t a party to the lawsuit.
Motorola did not and does not have access to googles documents.
What occurred after the original case has nothing to do with the case itself
There's no way apple will get access and nor should they
This seems more complicated than I originally thought.
It appears that Motorola is preparing to hand over documents according to this article over on Ars. I still don't get it.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/apple-wins-right-to-android-development-details-in-patent-lawsuit.ars
Motorola have access to documents that aren't otherwise visible, dating from the Xoom's use of Android 3 and very probably their other Android devices. Remember Android 3 remains closed source because of the dirty hacks done to make it work on the Xoom (and other tablets I assume). Motorola has documentation we will never see any other way. Further, *every* OEM that bundled Googles Android apps has a contractual relation with G and that won't be fully public either.
Now I'd agree that's a pretty slim excuse for this fishing trip, that the real point of interest is Apple jumping on the merger and this is just an excuse. However the US legal system seems to allow all sorts of outrageous behaviour designed to harass opponents or gain unfair advantage. So I'm not surprised they got a judge to order this.
What I'm waiting on is Googles response. They can move to block this as a non-party to the case. I have a suspicion they'll be happy to get dragged in now. It gives them leverage to attack Apple and the near demolition of Oracles attack must give them confidence.
Once involved the serious delaying tactics can start, designed to let the USPTO work on destroying Apples IP. It's working nicely against Oracle and Apples patents aren't much better than the crap Oracle bought with Sun.
Time to put the popcorn on. This is going to get messy.
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