In a first step towards acknowledging the patent
wars that have been raging between Apple Inc.( NASDAQ:AAPL) and Android-power
devices, Google Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG) and Samsung executives are meeting to discuss
the fallout of the patent legal battles.
According to a report in the Korea Times Samsung
Electronics chief Shin Jong-Kyun will be meeting with Google’s Eric Schmidt
this Thursday in Seoul.
The paper said that a Samsung executive confirmed
the meeting although he did not say anything about the topics which were to be
discussed.
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The report speculate that Apple was most likely to
be the topic of conversation between the two companies since Apple's most
virulent cases have been reserved for Samsung, which it has alleged has been
copying the designs of its mobile devices.
In a recent trial between Apple and Samsung in a
federal court in San Jose in the United States, the court ruled in favour of
the Cupertino company and awarded it a billion dollars in damages saying that
the Korean firm had copied its designs and infringed on its patents.
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The late Steve Jobs had gone on record to his
biographer to say that Android was a copycat product.
Google has so far downplayed the disputes between
Apple and Samsung saying that the patents under dispute did not relate to the
core Android operating system.
Apple hasn’t ever directly attacked Google anywhere
but the entire tech world is aware that these legal disputes between Apple and
Android devices are a proxy war between the iPhone maker and the Internet
search giant.
Google's Android is the most-used operating system
in the world and the main rival to Apple's iOS.
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