Apple, Samsung Win Ruling to Keep Financial Data Secret
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Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. don’t have to reveal confidential data including financial information, source code, business plans and market research reports to the public, a U.S. appeals court ruled today.
A federal judge shouldn’t have ordered the world’s largest smartphone makers to reveal “exceptionally sensitive information” from their patent dispute that has remained under seal since the trial last year in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ruled.