In a joint statement issued on Friday, tech giants Apple and Google have revealed that they have reached an agreement to settle all smartphone-related patent-infringement lawsuits which the two companies had filed against each other.
Apple and Google said in the joint statement that they have also "agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform." However, the companies asserted alongside that the settlement worked out by them does not include a cross licensing of their respective patented technology.
According to the Friday filings, Apple and Google - which have filed dozens of patent-infringement lawsuits against each other - have informed a federal appeals court in Washington that their patent litigation against each other should be dismissed.
The agreement between Apple and Google essentially implies that the companies have dropped the nearly two dozen patent suits and countersuits between Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary and Apple.
The cases date back to 2010; and were inherited by Google when it acquired Motorola's patent portfolio and mobile phone business in 2012, in a $12.5 billion deal. With Google now having sold Motorola's smartphone unit to Lenovo, the old patent litigation has evidently stopped making much sense.
Posted by www.anymobilesmartphone.co.uk
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