Judge Orders Google to Answer Apple's Questions in Lawsuit Against Samsung

A U.S. judge has ordered Google to provide Apple with a list of search terms it used to compile the Android documentation Apple requested in its case against Samsung, reports AllThingsD.

Google had argued that Apple was overstepping its bounds by demanding such information from a third party to the case, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal disagreed. He ordered Google to comply with Apple’s request, gave the company two days to do so and teased the search behemoth for complaining that the request was burdensome in the first place.

“The court cannot help but note the irony that Google, a pioneer in searching the Internet, is arguing that it would be unduly burdened by producing a list of how it searched its own files", said Grewal.


Apple wants a list of the search terms because of "concerns that they’re not doing a full search" to locate documents requested in pretrial discovery. Google argued that handing over the search terms could lead to “future discovery that we don’t think they’re entitled to” and give Apple “ideas about how to proceed that they wouldn’t have had.”

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