Although Tim Cook and the CEO of Samsung have already met twice to try to solve the legal problems of the companies they run, for now no solution could be found. Although a third meeting would most likely be doomed to failure, Lucy Koh, the judge presiding over a Samsung-Apple trial in the US, sent a prayer the presidents of both companies to meet for the last time in order to solve their legal problems. For the time being, the lawyers of the two companies agreed that the presidents should have at least one telephone discussion about the problem, but there is a possibility that a face-to-face meeting could be taken into account.
"I see risk here for both sides if we go to a verdict," Judge Lucy Koh said on Wednesday. She said that if the companies were just seeking to show the world they both have intellectual property positions relative to tablets and smartphones then "message delivered." She also noted that if what the parties were seeking is an external valuation of their portfolios that they are also getting that from trial courts worldwide.
"It's time for peace," she said. Attorneys for both companies agreed to at least a telephone meeting between the two companies. Executives for both sides have previously met, to no avail, at the court's direction.
The judge claims that if this process has another purpose besides demonstrating the fact that both companies have registered intellectual property, then there must be an amicable way to solve the problems. She claims that both sides must settle down and the trials in the US and around the world should be ended. If the first 2 meetings were not successful, I don't see what could be resolved in this, but this mediation attempt had to be made.
