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Apple, Samsung CEOs to attend mediation session before March patent trial

article published on 9 January, 2014

The chief executives of Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session in the coming weeks as they prepare to go to trial in a patent row. The meeting will take place sometime between now and February 19, with only in-house lawyers accompanying Samsung CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Legal teams for both consumer electronics firms reportedly met ... [ read the full article ]

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9. January 2014 @ 09:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Did Apple and MS ever pay Zerox for the GUI?

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

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10. January 2014 @ 14:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, but Apple did have to pay Creative a small fortune for the technology they blatantly stole from them for the iPod. Apple suing Samsung is nothing but blatant hypocracy. Apple products may very well be innovative, but most of them are not original. All the current Smartphones got their roots from Palm and Blackberry. You don't see them suing anyone.
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10. January 2014 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ever since we gained the ability to watch, speak and especially write, every new thing stands on the shoulders of what went before, current copyright law is the very definition of an ass.

When curved corners to a rectangular shape are agreed by judges to be somehow 'owned' and the basis of an infringement claim for substantial compensation you know something stinks.

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