How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal<article>
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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>
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statement 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 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 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>
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How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal
