“Google Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which are frequently involved in patent infringement lawsuits but not against each other, announced on Sunday that they have reached a global patent cross-licensing agreement,” Diane Bartz reports for Reuters.
“The deal covers patents currently owned by the companies, as well as any filed in the next 10 years, the companies said in a release. Financial terms were not disclosed,” Bartz reports. “The companies said the deal ‘would lead to deeper collaboration on research and development of current and future projects.'”
Bartz reports, “Samsung’s Seungho Ahn, head of the company’s intellectual property center, said the deal showed ‘the rest of the industry that there is more to gain from cooperating than engaging in unnecessary patent disputes.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ah, what a lovely world:
Samsung and Google agree to share everything they’ve stolen from Apple.
Kumbaya.
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Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Here’s Google’s Android before and after Apple’s iPhone:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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