{"id":12073,"date":"2011-06-19T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/06\/19\/apple-samsung-talks-on-patent-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T00:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:04:45","slug":"apple-samsung-talks-on-patent-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/06\/19\/apple-samsung-talks-on-patent-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Samsung talks on patent lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executives \u201cat the highest levels\u201d of Apple Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are in talks about patent litigation between the two companies, a lawyer for Apple said in court. The disclosure came during a hearing on Friday in the battle over the highly lucrative smartphone and tablet markets, jump-started by Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad. Apple sued Samsung in April, claiming Samsung\u2019s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets infringe several patents and trademarks. Samsung then countersued, asserting its own patents against Apple. Apple was Samsung\u2019s second-biggest customer last year after Sony, accounting for about $5.7 billion of sales to Samsung mainly by purchasing semiconductors, according to Samsung\u2019s annual report. At a hearing on Friday in a San Jose, Calif. federal court, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh referenced the close business relationship between the two companies. In response, Apple attorney Harold McElhinny said the case has gotten the attention of executives \u201cat the highest levels\u201d of the two companies. \u201cCan we get them together?\u201d Koh asked. \u201cThey are in fact meeting and talking,\u201d McElhinny said, without elaborating. An Apple spokesman declined to comment, and a Samsung representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Samsung\u2019s Galaxy products use Google\u2019s Android operating system, which directly competes with Apple\u2019s mobile software. Late last month, Samsung filed a request for Apple to hand over the unreleased versions of the iPhone and iPad, saying it would be \u201chighly relevant\u201d to its defense. A judge had already ordered Samsung to produce similar materials to Apple, Samsung attorneys argued in court filings. Apple opposed the request, saying it was an attempt to \u201charass\u201d Apple into disclosing extremely sensitive trade secrets. Koh heard arguments on that issue on Friday but did not rule from the bench. Apple also amended its complaint against Samsung late on Thursday night, asserting additional patents against Samsung.  <\/p>\n

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Executives \u201cat the highest levels\u201d of Apple Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are in talks about patent litigation between the two companies, a lawyer for Apple said in court. The disclosure came during a hearing on Friday in the battle over the highly lucrative smartphone and tablet markets, jump-started by Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}