selective information about sale , profits and allowance for specific Apple production should be made public , the jurist hearing the party ’s suit against Samsung Electronics ruled on Wednesday , though a high royal court ’s decision could keep the data from ever being disclose .
Apple used the fiscal information in a motion to strike Samsung with more scathe above and beyond the$1.05 billion awardthat a jury decided on in August . The panel had found Samsung copied iPhones and other Apple gimmick in several of its product . However , Apple wants to keep the financial information under seal , say it constitutes trade secret .
In an order released on Wednesday , Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said those figure of speech should be in public available . But she rein that the information should not be unsealed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules on an ingathering by Apple . Both courts have stays in position until that ruling is made .
Apple break its sales and net income every quarteras a publicly traded fellowship , and it periodically gives unit sale figures for certain products . But it carefully guards other types of information about how its single products are doing and how much they cost to make . On Aug. 9 , before the jury even adjudicate the case , Koh issued an order that said such financial information should n’t be varnish . That parliamentary procedure has been stayed pending Apple ’s appeal to the higher court .
“ As this Court explicate in the August 9 Order , Apple has not prove that public availableness of its product - specific building block sale , taxation , profit , net income security deposit and toll data would actually provide its competitors with an advantage , ” Koh wrote in Wednesday ’s opinion . In addition , there is dandy public interestingness in the data point , she read . Since then , “ Apple has not provided any new arguments for why this information should be protected , ” she save .
Koh ’s decision on Wednesday involves different documents from the ones covered in the Aug. 9 order , but they are open to the same analysis , she wrote . invest her new order into upshot immediately would counteract the stays that are in place on that other opinion , Koh wrote .
In Wednesday ’s order , Koh also denied a motion by Apple to varnish another set of document , but she granted its motion to keep some market - contribution data from research party IDC under sealing wax . make that information public could hurt IDC ’s power to sell reports to other companies , Koh said in her decision . ( IDC is a division of IDG , the parent ship’s company of IDG News Service . )
