Larry Page & Tim Cook have talked and will be meeting to work out the patent issues between the two companies. Most notably that Apple insists Android is a stolen product. Can they stave off a huge legal bill or will they walk away and continue their battles in court?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...t-matters.html
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Even though Apple hasn?t sued Google directly, the iPhone maker?s patent lawsuits against Samsung and HTC Corp. (2498) have targeted features from Android. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that Android was a ?stolen product.?
Apple considered suing Google directly before filing its first smartphone patent-infringement suit against HTC in 2010, according to a person close to Apple?s legal team.
Apple decided against it after determining that going after the manufacturers of rival smartphones would be a better strategy than building a case against Google, this person said. The Android developer, also owner of the most popular Internet- search engine, gives the mobile operating system away for free to handset makers in exchange for advertising revenue.
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