‘Google and Samsung Strike Global Patent-Licensing Deal’ – ‘Mashable’

Adario Strange says, “Furthering strengthening an already close working relationship, Samsung and Google announced a new global patent-licensing agreement on Sunday.“We’re pleased to enter into a cross-license with our partner Samsung,” Allen Lo, deputy general counsel for patents at Google, said in a statement. “By working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation.”

The new agreement not only covers current patents, but also applies to those filed over the next 10 years. Such a wide-ranging and longterm deal eases the way for both companies to better integrate the other’s patents into a diverse array of products, as well as send a competitive signal to the likes of Apple“.