{"id":51460,"date":"2014-01-09T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51460"},"modified":"2014-01-09T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:06:49","slug":"apple-samsung-ceos-to-meet-over-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/51460\/apple-samsung-ceos-to-meet-over-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Samsung CEOs to meet over settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chiefs of Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. will meet to discuss settling a bitter two year legal battle over designs and technologies of smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>A filing with the U.S. District court in San Jose showed Thursday the CEOs will meet by or before Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was made in response to a court order to submit a proposal for settlement discussions before a new trial begins in March.<\/p>\n<p>The same court ordered them to meet in 2012 for settlement talks.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Many industry watchers predict the two companies will ultimately settle patent lawsuits outside court.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple and Samsung<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Apple and Samsung marketing battle looms with China Mobile deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/51236\/51236\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple and Samsung marketing battle looms with China Mobile deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Samsung loses Apple ban bid\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/50836\/samsung-loses-apple-ban-bid\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung loses Apple ban bid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Samsung needs to do more to settle Apple patent dispute\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/50703\/samsung-needs-to-do-more-to-settle-apple-patent-dispute\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung needs to do more to settle Apple patent dispute<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Apple vs Samsung legal bill: $60 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/50687\/apple-vs-samsung-legal-bill-60-million\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple vs Samsung legal bill: $60 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chiefs of Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. will meet to discuss settling a bitter two year legal battle over designs and technologies of smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,371,52],"class_list":["post-51460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-lawsuit","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51461,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460\/revisions\/51461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}