Apple and Samsung Electronics exchanged heated words in court Tuesday over allegations that Samsung’s lawyers leaked details of confidential Apple licensing agreements to Samsung executives.
Apple asked the court to impose “severe sanctions” against Samsung for the disclosures, which it says allowed the South Korean firm to gain unfair leverage in negotiations with Apple and other companies.
William Lee, an attorney for Apple, said there had been a “massive disclosure of highly confidential information” by one of Samsung’s outside law firms.
“What we’ve discovered is remarkable in scope and remarkable in the extent of the violations,” he told Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.
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