"On May 28, 2009 or eleven days prior to Apple's unveiling of their next generation iPhones, Apple sought short and indefinite confidential treatment for documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission," MacNN reports.

"In the first term, Apple requested that certain documents be withheld from the public for a short term of forty-five days. These documents included Test Setup Photographs, External Photographs, Internal Photo graphs and the iPhone's User Manual," MacNN reports.

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