The law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan failed to adequately control confidential business in a patent dispute between its client Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., a federal agency said in a rare public reprimand Wednesday.
The U.S. International Trade Commission sanctioned Quinn Emanuel “for pervasive problems at the firm in safeguarding [confidential business information],” according to a notice published in the Federal Register, a daily catalogue of new rules, regulations and notices. The firm violated an administrative protective order, or APO, in a discovery leak that gave Samsung employees access to Apple secrets, including details of its licensing deal with Nokia.
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