SAMSUNG SMOKING GUN MAY HELP APPLE
In the case of Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., 11-01846, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose), the court ordered Samsung to produce source code of certain products. In patent and copyright litigation, it is common to seek access to source code in discovery. Each party can obtain desired evidence from the other parties by means of discovery which is governed by civil procedure in the pretrial phase of a law suit. Apple asserts that Samsung has only partially complied with the court order. According to Apple, Samsung has produced source code for just one version of each of the products.