“The judge overseeing Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung said Apple can’t keep secret a marketing survey it took of its customers,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.

“Apple argued that the survey’s release would aid competitors as the data is not available elsewhere,” Fried reports. “‘It’s plainly a trade secret,’ Apple’s lawyer told the court. ‘There’s no reason for a document to come into evidence in its entirety.’”

Fried reports, “Judge Lucy Koh disagreed, but allowed Apple time to file an appeal… Koh said she was denying Apple’s request for sanctions against Samsung for a press release that made reference to evidence that Koh had excluded and said that it was information the jury needed to know… ‘I will not allow any theatrics or sideshow distract us from what we are here to do,’ Koh said.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Yes, by all means, let’s get on with it already. After all, Samsung has been ripping off Apple’s iPhone to the tune of billions of dollars for over five years now and counting.

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