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Apple brought Google in the midst of its legal tussle with Samsung. The Cupertino based company requested a judge to order Google to turn over Android source code documents. Apple claims that Google is improperly withholding information which has already been requested in the pretrial information sharing.

According to a court filing by Apples legal team, because Googles Android OS is used in all Samsung made, patent infringing products, it “provides much of the accused functionality." Apples lawyers questioned the transparency of the evidence gathering process before the trial.

Googles lawyers told the judge that in keeping the search giant off the official complaint, Apple has made a "strategic decision." As a third party to the case, Google doesnt have the same rights as Apple and Google regarding "reciprocal discovery." Henceforth, should Google hand over the Android documents, Apple might have a “future discovery that we don’t think they’re entitled to” and “ideas about how to proceed that they wouldnt have had.”

The current legal ordeal is part of Apples second patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung. The company got awarded $1.05 billion by a jury in a verdict from last year.

Source | Via