Apple Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd., No. 12-1600 (Fed. Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseApple sued Samsung, asserting that Samsung’s smartphones and tablets infringed several of Apple’s patents and infringed Apple’s trade dress embodied in its iPhone and iPad products. Samsung counterclaimed that the iPhone and iPad infringed several of Samsung’s patents. A jury returned a verdict awarding Apple more than $1 billion in damages. The trial drew an extraordinary amount of attention and the press was given extraordinary access to the judicial proceedings. The district court agreed to seal only a small number of trial exhibits. After each trial day, the parties, by court order, provided the press with electronic copies of every exhibit used that day. Most exhibits attached to pre-trial and post-trial motions were ordered unsealed. The parties appealed denial of requests to seal confidential exhibits. The Federal Circuit reversed, stating that the public’s interest in judicial proceedings does not extend to mere curiosity about the parties’ confidential information where the information is not central to a decision on the merits.
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