Apple Asks Google For Android Source Code

Bangalore: In new twist to Apple’s patent war on its arch rival Samsung, after a long lull, the Cupertino giant has asked a judge to force Google to hand over documents related to its Android operating system, reports Bloomberg.

Apple has accused Samsung over the years for lavishly infringing on its innovations and that the South Korean company has no original ideas of its own. And now, as part of its second patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung in the same court, the iPhone maker argues that Android is used in all of Samsung’s allegedly infringing products and “provides much of the accused functionality”.  Apple told U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in San Jose, that Google is improperly withholding information about the documents Apple has requested in pretrial information sharing.

Mark Lyon, a lawyer for Apple, told Grewal that it’s a question of transparency and that Apple thinks that Google is not doing full search.