Google, Apple CEOs in secret patent talks
Source: Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been conducting behind-the-scenes talks about a range of intellectual property matters, including the mobile patent disputes between the companies, people familiar with the matter said.
The two executives had a phone conversation last week, the sources said. Discussions involving lower-level officials of the two companies are also ongoing.
Page and Cook are expected to talk again in the coming weeks, though no firm date has been set, the sources said on Thursday. One of the sources told Reuters that a meeting had been scheduled for this Friday, but had been delayed for reasons that were unclear.
The two companies are keeping lines of communication open at a high level against the backdrop of Apple's legal victory in a patent infringement case against Samsung, which uses Google's Android software.
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Samsung screwed Google, but good, by revealing how much Android ripped off Apple.
Apple and Google are smart to attempt to avoid a public trial. Which would make the Apple/Samsung trial look like nothing.
Analysts expect Apple to end up making $30+ for every Android product sold. Assuming that Android can afford to survive.
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and jobs is planted in the ground, so who won in the end?
I am not worried about google, they deliver a flexible product that you don't have to pay through the nose to get.
Oh by the way: 
Apple won a judgment of $1 billion in damages from Samsung. A billion dollars is a lot of money, but in context it is as if Steve Jobs’s threat to "go thermonuclear" on Samsung has been delivered by Austin Power’s nemesis Dr. Evil: “In a few moments you will notice that the Kreplachistani warhead has gone missing. If you want it back you are going to have to pay me…ONE MILLION DOLLARS.”
According to IDC analyst Ramon Llamas, these damages are applied to 21.3 million Samsung smartphones shipped in the United States during the two-year period ending in the second quarter of 2012. That amounts to about $47 per phone, making the ruling pricey on a bill-of-materials basis. Keep in mind, however, that this judgment only affects the United States. Since 2009, Samsung has shipped over 187 million Android smartphones worldwide. The Apple damages amortized over all these phones amounts to $5.35 per phone.
You may have noticed on Friday that judges in Seoul decided in separate patent litigation between the companies that Apple had infringed on two patents held by Samsung, while the Korean technology giant had violated one of Apple's. The court ordered each company to pay damages to its competitor, netting Samsung 10 million won, or $9,000. The Korean judgment brings to focus the global business of smartphones and the challenges Apple faces in asserting its patent claims throughout disparate worldwide legal venues. One can assume patent litigation in China, India and much of Asia will produce unrewarding results.
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I'm not sure which other countries you referred to. Which ones did you mean by"winning suits and injunctions all over the world"
It is not. To continue to use Apple's UI and designs, Google and the device makers are going to have to pay billions in fees. For many, many years.
They should innovate, not steal.
