Originally Posted by
stimpy
Wasn't there a case where an Apple employee left a new unreleased iPhone sitting on a bar and Apple was successful in blocking or suing (I can't recall) the publication of the details of that phone?
Sorry IANAL.
this is a different matter, they are responsible for the document being published, and readily available to the public, via commercial search engines. imagine someone publishing something in a newspaper, they may attempt to retract it, but once it's published, it's in the public domain for public consumption, if they can't take it down from their own URLs, or have various parties that have it listed, take it down, the only relief available to them is if they can get court order to get it taken down.
in the phone case, i gather they were proactive prior to a third party publishing, after their employee's mistake.