“On Friday (September 30, 2011), Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order ruling on multiple motions of a procedural nature,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s amicus curiae briefs have been accepted and are now deemed submitted,” Mueller reports. “Apple asked for permission to reply to those amicus briefs (if they were going to be admitted, which is what has just happened) by October 6, but the judge ‘considers any rebuttal argument on these issues to be duplicative and unnecessary at this time.'”
Mueller writes, “I don’t think this is a major problem for Apple. While its lawyers would have liked to respond, the public interest argument in connection with a possible injunction had to be addressed all along, irrespectively of those amicus briefs.”
Much more in the full article here.
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