Reports coming out of South Korea claim that CEO of Apple and Samsung Electronics – Tim Cook and JK Shin respectively met last week to settle their multi-year ongoing global lawsuit. The outcome however, was unfavourable to both the parties as Korean outlets claim that the settlement talks fell apart and will expectedly head back […]
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US Department Of Justice ends investigation against Samsung
Back in 2012, Samsung’s legal tussle with Apple had attracted attention from the US Department Of Justice who demanded a probe on Samsung’s patents. Now Reuters reports that the department has decided to put an end to the investigation. The investigation involved Samsung’s use of essential patents to sue Apple but since the decision on […]
Samsung escapes court sanction over leaked Apple agreement
Back in November, US court Judge Paul Grewal found that Samsung executives and few other people managed to get a look at the legal report that were confidential and marked for “Attorney Eyes Only.” Not only the court order was violated but Samsung along with its legal firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP could […]
Samsung settles with Ericsson with a cross licensing agreement
UPDATE: Reuters report puts a figure to the settlement. According to them, it’s $650 million. Click here for full report. Samsung seems to be in a cross-licensing mood as the Korean giant has now settled with Ericsson, mere hours after it announced a cross licensing agreement with Google. The cross licensing agreement relates to GSM, […]
Korean court rejects Samsung’s request to ban iPhone and iPad
Samsung faced a major setback today as the South Korean court rejected Samsung’s bid to ban sales of Apple products in the country. Samsung claimed Apple products like iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad 2 infringed three of their patents but the Court differed with the accusation as they gave a clean chit to Apple […]