{"id":27080,"date":"2012-11-22T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T06:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27080"},"modified":"2012-11-22T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:54:58","slug":"apple-vs-htc-details-to-be-given-to-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/27080\/apple-vs-htc-details-to-be-given-to-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple vs HTC details to be given to Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. judge has ordered Apple Inc<\/a> to disclose to rival Samsung Electronics<\/a> details of a legal settlement the iPhone maker reached with Taiwan’s HTC Corp<\/a>, including terms of a 10-year patents licensing agreement.<\/p>\n

The Korean electronics giant had earlier filed a motion to compel its U.S. rival — with whom it is waging a bitter legal battle over mobile patents across several countries — to reveal details of the settlement that was reached on November 10 with HTC but which have been kept under wraps.<\/p>\n

In August, the iPhone maker won a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung after a U.S. jury found that certain Samsung gadgets violated Apple’s software and design patents.<\/p>\n

Now, legal experts say the question of which patents are covered by the Apple-HTC settlement, and licensing details, could be instrumental in Samsung’s efforts to thwart Apple’s subsequent quest for a permanent sales ban on its products.<\/p>\n

The Asian company has argued it is “almost certain” that the HTC deal covers some of the same patents involved in its own litigation with Apple.<\/p>\n

The court on Wednesday ordered Apple to produce a full copy of the settlement agreement “without delay”, subject to an Attorneys-Eyes-Only designation.<\/p>\n

Representatives for the U.S. company could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

The settlement of Apple and HTC ended their worldwide litigation and brought to a close one of the first major flare-ups in the global smartphone patent wars.<\/p>\n

Apple first sued HTC in 2010, setting in motion a legal conflagration that has since circled the globe and engulfed the biggest names in mobile technology, from Samsung to Google Inc<\/a>‘s Motorola Mobility<\/a> unit.<\/p>\n

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