Billionaire Khosla Moves to Quash Apple’s Subpoena in IP Fight

Billionaire Vinod Khosla urged a federal judge to block Apple Inc.'s subpoena of him and his venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, in Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against AliveCor Inc.

Apple’s using the subpoenas to “harass” AliveCor investor Khosla and “pressure AliveCor to drop its offensive antitrust and unfair competition claims” so it can “continue its anticompetitive conduct,” according to a motion to quash filed May 30 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The document requests are unduly burdensome and irrelevant to Apple’s claims over heart-monitoring technology, the motion said.

The motion was filed a week ...