U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh doesn’t share Apple’s interest in expediting its lawsuit against Samsung. Yesterday she decided to deny a motion to shorten the available time for a subset of the entire litigation. FOSS Patents says that this denial suggests that Judge Koh has doubts about Apple’s entitlement to a faster process.
FOSS Patents goes on to provide a nice overview of Judge Koh’s recent decision and how it fits into the big picture. In brief, Apple filed a complaint against Samsung in April, and then amended that complaint two months later. Apple was later granted early access to some Samsung products, while Samsung was denied access to some early Apple products.
On July 1, Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction as well as two other motions, one of which was about shortening time:
“Furthermore, Apple filed a motion to shorten time for the briefing process with respect to the motion for an expedited trial. The purpose of that one was to compress the timeline for the exchange of pleadings concerning Apple’s desire to compress the timeline for the overall lawsuit. Apple wanted a schedule based on which the court would schedule a hearing for July 21 (next week’s Thursday), at or after which the decision on the motion for an expedited (overall) trial would be taken.”
It’s that motion that the judge denied, saying in part, “The Court agrees [with Samsung] that Apple has not established substantial harm or prejudice justifying a shortened briefing and hearing schedule for its Motion to Expedite.”
Apparently the court is not convinced that Apple’s claims of infringement — which the company acknowledges that it has known about for quite some time — now rise to the level of “gotta deal with it right now.”
No rush to judgement in Apple v. Samsung originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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