Samsung Sanctioned by Judge for Apple Document Disclosure

Samsung Electronics Co., sanctioned with its law firm by a U.S. judge for violating a court order protecting the confidentiality of Apple Inc.’s patent-licensing accords, avoided the severe penalties the iPhone maker sought.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, yesterday said that “public findings of wrongdoing” by Samsung’s law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and Quinn Emanuel’s payment of Apple and Nokia Oyj’s legal costs would be “sufficient both to remedy Apple and Nokia’s harm and to discourage similar conduct in the future.”