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Title: How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal Post by: HCK on January 29, 2014, 02:00:17 pm How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Google and Samsung have signed a “global patent cross-license agreement” that covers the companies’ existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years.</p><p> In a brief statement (http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=33461) released Sunday, Google and Samsung said the agreement covers “a broad range of technologies and business areas” without going into specifics.</p><p> By working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation, Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents, said in the statement.</p><p> Samsung, of course, has been locked in a variety of legal disputes (http://www.pcworld.com/article/249824/apple_files_another_us_patent_suit_against_samsung.html?tk=rel_news) over mobile patents with rival Apple for years. For example, in one of the lawsuits in the U.S., Samsung was ordered to pay about $930 million (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2091380/samsungs-apple-damages-equivalent-to-16-days-profit.html?tk=rel_news) in damages to Apple last year.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2091460/how-do-you-like-them-apples-google-and-samsung-ink-patent-deal.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal (http://www.macworld.com/article/2091460/how-do-you-like-them-apples-google-and-samsung-ink-patent-deal.html#tk.rss_all) |