“The widely anticipated two-day meeting between chief executives of Samsung and Apple yielded no agreement between the parties mired in a hot legal dispute over copyright infringements,” Cho Mu-hyun reprots for The Korea Times.
“Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung and Shin Jong-kyun, head of the firm’s mobile division, left Seoul Sunday for the United States to meet Apple CEO Tim Cook by order of the Northern District Court of California, in an attempt to settle the patent fight without going into costly legal proceedings,” Cho reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Suckers take the walk.
Cho reports, “The two technology giants could find no clear agreement through the talks, according to a Samsung official… The patent battle is now headed for trial in July… The dispute started in April last year when Apple sued Samsung for copying the “look and feel” of the iPhone for the Korean company’s hot-selling Galaxy smartphones.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This outcome was completely predictable; never in doubt. The judge who ordered this “settlement meeting” fiasco accomplished nothing more than wasting two more days of everyone’s time. Another million or so Samsung knockoffs infringing Apple’s patented IP moved to market in the meantime. Bravo, justice!
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
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