SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel took offense at one of Samsung's expert witnesses, attempting to get him excluded from the trial between Apple and Samsung here.
Ahead of the testimony of Tim Williams, Ph.D, Apple said Williams had not properly disclosed the fact that he had signed multiple nondisclosure agreements, one of which Intel says prohibits him from discussing the particulars of Intel's source code.
Samsung had called on Williams to discuss Apple's alleged infringement of one of Samsung's cellular data transmission patents, which included citing some of the source code.
An Intel lawyer briefly came into court, saying that Dr. Williams had effectively gone dark about his involvement in the case, and that Williams was very nearly involved with a separate case with the International Trade Commission and Motorola where the same issue was present. Moreover, Intel complained that Williams had not disclosed various non-disclosure agreements he had signed, and cases he was involved with in his resume.
"We raised this issue with Samsung, they told us they'd get back to us on this issue," Intel's lawyer said. "The issue was then dropped, we didn't hear anything else from Dr. Williams. He didn't do ITC, then we got notice about him being in this case."
Intel then said that Dr. Williams was bound by an amendment in the company's non-disclosure agreement to serve a copy of any testimony notice to all the parties involved in a case, as ... [Read more]
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