Monday's testimony in the Apple v. Samsung trial has revealed more about the patent licensing deal Apple offered to Samsung in 2010—including the fact that Microsoft accepted a similar deal granting access to some of Apple's design patents.
Apple Patent Licensing Director Boris Teksler testified that design patents at stake in the Samsung trial were licensed to Microsoft, as reported by Reuters. But Microsoft is not allowed to simply build iPhone or iPad clones—which is exactly what Apple accuses Samsung of doing with its various Android-based devices. "There was no right with respect to these design patents to build clones of any type," Teksler said, according to Reuters.
According to CNET, Teksler said the deal with Microsoft provided access to all patents in the Apple v. Samsung case, but with provisions to prevent clones. The Verge notes that the anti-cloning provisions date back to the cross-licensing agreement Apple and Microsoft signed in 1997. The patents at issue in this case are much newer (like this one filed for in 2007), so Teksler may have been talking about a new agreement or updates to the original one.
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