During the many, many lawsuits and court battles that Samsung and Apple have engaged in, there have been some occasions where each company has had access to private documents and information from the other company. Of course, that information should only ever be used in the context of the legal battles, but apparently Samsung had a different idea.
In one phase of Apple and Samsung's patent fight, Apple gave Samsung confidential documents explaining their patent agreements with companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp, and Philips. The court issued a protective order that was supposed to prevent Samsung from doing anything with those documents that wasn't related to the lawsuit. According to Apple, Samsung leaked that information to roughly 90 employees and 130 unauthorized lawyers, which is a pretty big leak. Samsung executive Dr. Seungho Ahn attempted to use the information to strong-arm Nokia into a licensing agreement, but now that Nokia has joined Apple's side in a motion for sanctions, I'm sure Samsung regrets the idea.
In their defense, Dr. Ahn said that “All information leaks,” and Samsung has stated that proper paper protocol wasn't followed and they “deeply regret” the leaks. That sounds like a pretty weak legal defense, so there's likely to be some major blowback on Samsung for this move. Judge Paul Grewal has asked Apple and Nokia to present recommendations for punishment and told Samsung to prepare some kind of legal defense. Considering Samsung hasn't had the best luck in the world with these legal bouts, I'm not sure this one's going to end in their favor.
source: The Verge
That’s disgusting. Samsung is a big company, they can’t do that and just go “whoops”. We want them to earn their money fair and square.
Fuck apple
All these corporations suck. We need to overhaul the whole system.
Come on Google step in and help Samsung I don’t get Google,apple would love to get rid of Google forever if they could,Google they don’t want your maps they also want bing. Google shut them down take away YouTube and anything Google see how they like it stop giving them android stuff. Idiots you guys give Microsoft s hard time why help crapple
Because, Google makes a ton of money having their services on Apple devices. And, it would not hurt to have Samsung chopped down a couple of notches. Also, it is not in Googles best interet to have a too stong Samsung in the android market.
And of course the obvious reason Google won’t help Smosung here… Samsung broke the law and violated a court order. Why jump in the middle od that?
Well said
You’re asking why won’t they jump in? Because they’re completely different companies. Do you think that this is just some fist fight in a school yard where they can just join in where they see fit?
Apple is as much Google’s competitor as Samsung is, anyway.