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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics has asked a U.S. court to obligate Apple Inc to assistance over its next-generation models of the iPhone and iPad in the latest volley in a series of papers misconduct suits between the digit profession companies.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh ordered Samsung to provide Apple copies of individual models of its Galaxy ambulatory phones and tablets, as well as another products.

"It would place Samsung at a momentous disadvantage in this proceedings if the Court allowed Apple access to Samsung's forthcoming products ... but prevented Samsung from gaining access to Apple's forthcoming products so that it could prepare its defense," Samsung argued in a change filed on weekday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Apple sued Samsung terminal month, claiming Samsung's Galaxy distinction of ambulatory phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung followed with its possess lawsuit, alleging that Apple was the consort doing the copying. [nN28231826]

Apple was Samsung's second-biggest client terminal year, mostly for semiconductors. The iPhone maker's claims against Samsung pore on Galaxy's design features, much as the look of its screen icons.

Samsung declined to comment, and Apple could not be direct reached for interpret on Monday.

Apple and Samsung are conception of a wider web of proceedings among sound makers and code firms over who owns the patents used in smartphones and tablets as rivals aggressively festinate into a market jump-started by Apple with its iPhone and iPad.

Samsung is digit of the fastest-growing smartphone makers and has emerged as Apple's strongest competitor in the palmy paper market with models in threesome sizes. But it relic a extreme second in the space.

Samsung's Galaxy products ingest Google's Android operating system, which direct competes with Apple's ambulatory software.

(Reporting by Michael Erman; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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