U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh has ruled that Samsung will have to reveal specific device sales numbers for a variety of its gadgets, denying the Korean company’s request to keep that information secret.
Samsung has to pony up the information after Apple made a follow-up request to its $1.05 billion award from a jury August 24 regarding damages resulting from the sale of Galaxy devices after a request to have them banned in the U.S. was denied.
Both sides in the case have made continual attempts to keep their sales numbers and other internal information secret, but Koh has consistently shot down most of those requests, citing a compelling lack of a reason to do so. Koh did however, grant a request from Samsung to delay the publication of a document that shows per-unit operating profit on two of the company’s handsets, pending an appeal by the Korean company.
The number Samsung will have to reveal will give us another peek behind the scenes, as we’ll see what the numbers will tell us about Samsung’s success in the U.S. phone market.
