Monday 13 August 2012

Apple patent director: only copycats like Samsung need our patents

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Apple's Director of Patent Licensing and Strategy, Boris Teksler, took the stand this afternoon to provide a look inside the company's stance on patent licensing — and the meetings and negotiations that took place between Apple and Samsung.

The chain of events that led up to the trial began in summer of 2010, with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S. Teksler echoed the sentiments of other Apple executives we've heard from: the company was shocked. "First, they were a trusted parter of ours, and we didn't understand how a trusted partner could build a copycat product... and so we took it so seriously that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook met with Samsung executives."

Internally, Apple's patent portfolio is split into three sections:...

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