During the course of Apple's original patent lawsuit with Samsung, the South Korea-based tech conglomerate routinely raised the ire of Apple's legal team for engaging in behavior that was ethically questionable at best. Apple, for instance, accused Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence it was required to hand over during discovery. Notably, this wasn't the first time Samsung was accused of engaging in such behavior, having been hit with sanctions in 2004 for willfully destroying emails in its lawsuit with MOSAID Technologies.
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