In reaction to the Samsung legal team’s recent handing over to the press some exhibits - which had been excluded from the high-profile Apple-Samsung trial - to the press, Apple has informed Judge Lucy Koh of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California that it intends filing an emergency motion of censure against Samsung over the document dump.

In its letter to Judge Koh, Apple said that it plans to file an emergency motion seeking "sanctions and other relief that may be appropriate" after Samsung's lawyers released documents which had been disallowed as evidence in the ongoing patent-infringement lawsuit between the two companies.

With the documents sent out by Samsung to the press largely comprising exhibits that had been excluded from testimony in court due to the fact that they had not been filed in time, Apple – which has accused Samsung for slavishly copying the iPhone and iPad in its smartphones and tablets - said in its letter that it was quite apparent that Samsung wanted to use the documents to sway the jurors.

Pointing out that the documents which Samsung has released to the press chiefly detail the South Korean company’s claims that it was already working on a design for an iPhone-like smartphone – dubbed F700 - much before Apple announced the iPhone, Apple’s legal counsel William Lee said that Samsung’s move clearly underscores its “deliberate attempt to influence the trial with inadmissible evidence is both improper and unethical.”