Apple, Samsung declare peace in biggest modern tech patent fight


(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 26, 2012, an employee shows an Apple's iPhone 4s (L) and a Samsung's Galaxy S3 (R) at a mobile phone shop in Seoul. Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a US court filing on June 27, 2018. The world's two biggest smartphone makers reached a truce in their seven-year-old court battle a month after a federal court jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple some $539 million for copying patented iPhone features. / AFP PHOTO / Jung Yeon-je

The biggest patent battle of the modern technology world has finally come to an end after seven years. 

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co told a judge on June 27 they’d resolved the first filed but last remaining of the legal disputes that once spanned four continents. The string of lawsuits started in 2011 after Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder who died that year, threatened to go “thermonuclear” on rivals that used the Android operating system. The companies didn’t disclose the terms of the accord. 

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