Apple, Samsung Declare Peace in Biggest Modern Tech Patent Fight
- Battle started with Steve Jobs’s threat to go ‘thermonuclear’
- Companies waged global litigation over smartphone technology
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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 Wednesday 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.