One of the cool things about patent trials is that even though one company might accuse the other of infringement, the accused has a right to access confidential information from the accuser in order to defend itself. Such is the case of Samsung, as the company and its lawyers had access to all the Apple/Nokia patent deal documents that were confidential, but that were used in the recent trial that Samsung lost.Even though the documents were all stamped with “for attorney’s eyes only”, Samsung later quoted exact terms of the deal in its own negotiations with Nokia. Obviously ...
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