Posted on November 11, 2011 by ZDNet in Business & Marketing, Mobile Samsung won’t get a chance to look at the non-redacted versions of Apple’s contracts with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone after Apple’s lawyers provided assurance that the information that Samsung sought was not present in any of the documents.
Samsung was after Apple’s contracts with Australia’s peak three telecommunications providers in order to determine how the iPhone 4S is being sold by the carriers, so that it can assess the iPhone 4S’s damage to Samsung’s market share.
The NSW branch of the Federal Court made an order yesterday that Apple had until noon on 10 November 2011 to produce certain contract terms or face disclosing full, non-redacted contracts to Samsung’s barristers.
Despite dismissing the notice to produce as being a Samsung-led “fishing expedition” yesterday in court, Apple complied with the notice to produce, informing representatives from Samsung that the clauses that it was seeking to confirm as being present within the contracts were in fact nowhere to be found.
However, Samsung expressed a degree of mistrust over this, seeking support from the court to compel Apple to provide the contracts.
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