Apple wants more Samsung devices banned

Apple wants product import ban on Samsung devices in the US to be broadened to possibly include more devices. The tech giant has appealed against decision of United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose an import ban against only a few of the Samsung Electronics gadgets. ITC website recently published Apple's official appeal.

In the appeal, published by ITC on its website, Apple seeks to overturn the unfavourable parts of the final ITC ruling on its complaint against Samsung. The Cupertino-based company aims to reverse ITC decisions which it believes allow Samsung to design workarounds for its products despite the ban.

ITC has already found Samsung guilty of infringing two patents. Apple's appeal wants ITC to review three more patent cases. The present ban mostly covers discontinued models of Samsung.

Samsung Electronics is expected to appeal against Apple's petition.

In another case, Samsung reportedly lost a bid to block a ruling requiring it to produce information about the extent of its violation of a court order protecting Apple's patent licensing agreements.

According to the Bloomberg report, US District Judge Lucy H Koh in San Jose, California, upheld US Magistrate Paul S Grewal's sanction requiring Samsung to produce Apple e-mails, communications among Samsung employees, and to make available to Apple various witnesses because of its violation.

Samsung is said to have argued that Grewal's order was "grossly overbroad," and would cause it to violate attorney-client protections.

Obama administration recently vetoed a product ban that would have forced Apple to stop selling some iPhones and iPads in the United States, in what was seen as a rare intervention by the White House.