Motorola Mobility Loses Bid to Seal Samsung Court Records
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Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit lost a court bid to seal “highly confidential” records of its patent-licensing talks with Samsung Electronics Co. that appeared in the South Korean company’s intellectual property lawsuit against Apple Inc. in California.
The document at issue in a hearing today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, is a summary of a licensing negotiation between Motorola and Samsung that took place several weeks before the two companies reached a 2000 agreement, according to a court filing by Motorola Mobility. It was filed as an exhibit supporting Apple’s attempt to depose Samsung witnesses, Motorola Mobility said.