Tim Cook and Larry Page, the presidents of two of the most important companies in the world, they had in recent weeks, discussions about the possible avoidance of legal disputes. In the middle, of course, is Android, which Steve Jobs said infringes various Apple patents, but Google representatives have repeatedly stated that even Apple did not innovate even in iOS. For now, the presidents have only discussed the problems on the phone, a meeting was supposed to take place tomorrow, but it was postponed.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been conducting behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies, according to people familiar with the matter . The two chief executives had a phone conversation last week, the sources said. Discussions involving lower-level officials of the two companies are also ongoing. Page and Cook are expected to talk again in the coming weeks, although no firm date has been set, the sources said. One source told Reuters that a meeting was scheduled for this Friday, but had been delayed for reasons that were unclear.
For now, no one knows exactly what the two presidents and their representatives talked about, but it is probably a mutual licensing whereby Apple would receive Google/Motorola licenses and those from Google would receive licenses for important functions of the Android OS. There is, of course, the possibility of discussing a somewhat more comprehensive license that would also protect the implementations of Android terminal manufacturers, but for now these are pure speculations.
Apple's victory against Samsung seems to have attracted the attention of many manufacturers of Android terminals and including those from Google who are trying to solve everything without ending up in court again where Apple could win.
