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Apple CEO Tim Cook and software program engineering chief Craig Federighi might be summoned to testify in the continuing Apple vs. Epic authorized battle, a decide mentioned earlier this week.
The court docket submitting, first shared by iMore, says that Apple has agreed to make Cook a “document custodian.” Apple tried to place a situation that might restrict Cook’s deposition to 4 hours, however the court docket says that the situation shouldn’t be applicable as Epic will be unable to assess essential deposition size till the total vary of paperwork in the case are made accessible.
Apple additionally needed to have Eric Neuenschwander function a second doc custodian as an alternative of Craig Federighi, however the court docket has dominated that it have to be Federighi and that Apple should produce all related documentation. Apple has mentioned that Federighi’s paperwork are “likely to contain particularly sensitive business information.”
Apple should present intensive documentation and knowledge associated to an App Store examine carried out by Analysis Group that in contrast App Store charges with charges from different platforms. Apple had not been planning to share these paperwork beneath an lawyer work product privilege as Apple can also be utilizing Analysis Group as an skilled guide, however the decide mentioned Apple has to present the data to Epic.
Epic has additionally complained that it’s skeptical Apple has produced all related worker communications, as some emails included hyperlinks to cloud-based paperwork and Epic has to ask Apple to present every of the linked paperwork. Epic needed Apple to present all hyperlink documentation, however the court docket sided with Apple on this level and mentioned that Apple doesn’t want to determine all hyperlinked paperwork due to the burden of the work. Apple does, nevertheless, have to present hyperlinked paperwork for a “reasonable number of emails.”
The Apple vs. Epic dispute will proceed on with smaller issues equivalent to doc requests over the course of the following a number of months as the 2 corporations put together for their July 2021 listening to the place they’ll battle it out in court docket.
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