Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Apple and Microsoft Have a Secret Agreement

Wednesday, 2012-08-15 12:30:00 GMT
 (TEKNOBIZ - FYI) Apple and Microsoft seems to have had a secret agreement. Ie they will not sue each other smartphone related patents. This was revealed in a court hearing in California in the Apple case against Samsung.

Boris Teskler as Apple Patent Chief said that Apple and Microsoft to establish a cross-license their technologies. Apple enforce the terms 'anti-cloning' to Windows Phone from Microsoft is not copying the iPhone.

Operating system Microsoft Windows Phone was designed much different from the IOS. Teskler stated Apple had approached Samsung to try to do the same deal in 2010, but negotiations failed.

Teskler explained that Apple does offer a few patents for the licensed. However, design patents related specifically iPhone and iPad are strictly protected in order not to imitate others. Therefore, Apple was suing Samsung that some products are considered to imitate.

Apple pointed out that a quarter from the sale of Samsung smartphones and tablets in the United States obtained from the marketing of devices that mimic the iPhone and the iPad.

After Apple filed evidence and relevant witnesses to support its claims, now Samsung's turn to do the same. U.S. court decisions in Apple's case against Samsung is considered to be quite crucial in determining the direction of future mobile devices industry.

http://teknobiz.co.id/news/FYI/2012/08/15/apple_dan_microsoft_miliki_perjanjian_rahasia 

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