Apple, Samsung CEOs to meet in court-directed mediation

A rather positive turn in the now longstanding patent lawsuit involving the iPhone maker and South Korea-based, Samsung Electronics may be in the offing. Reports coming in confirm that the chief executives of the two companies are scheduled to meet today and tomorrow, in what essentially is a court-directed mediation. The two companies, who were once friends have been involved in a host of patent lawsuits, stretching to several countries across the world, since a while now and this court-directed mediation is, at this hour an attempt to help the companies iron out all their differences and will be overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero. 

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