“The chief executives of Apple Inc [Tim Cook] and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd [Kwon Oh Hyun] have talked but did not settle the high stakes patent dispute between the two electronics companies, a Samsung attorney said in court on Monday,” Dan Levine reports for Reuters.

“U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh had requested that the two talk on the phone at least once more before the jury begins deliberating this week,” Levine reports. “Apple accuses Samsung of copying the design and some features of its iPad and iPhone, and is asking for a sales ban in addition to monetary damages.”

Levine reports, “In court on Monday, Samsung attorney Kevin Johnson told Koh nothing had come from the talk.”

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