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"Taiwanese manufacturer AU Optronics (AUO) has revealed that it has reached an agreement to end its legal dispute with\u00A0Korean electronics giant Samsung.\r\n\r\nThe two companies have been wrangling over patents for liquid-crystal-display panel products but they have now agreed to &amp;quot;to cross-license LCD patents and withdraw their lawsuits&amp;quot;, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.\r\n\r\nThe spat began back in June when AU hit Samsung with a lawsuit over the patents after Samsung lodged a complaint about the company with the International Trade Commission over the very same issue.\r\n\r\nAUO provides technology to a number of key players in the global smartphone, tablet and PCs markets and the company has been at the centre of claims that Apple, and now Google, are using its supplies to build 7-inch tablets to rival the Amazon Kindle.\r\n\r\nThe Samsung-AUO settlement comes just one day after Apple agreed a $5 million out of court settlement with another Taiwanese tech firm following a disagreement around touch-based patents. Apple paid the sum to Elan Microelectronics Corp, after the company initiated patent infringement against it in a US court in 2009.\r\n\r\nApple is fighting numerous patent battles around the world, claiming that Samsung and HTC have infringed on technologies protected by the company. The Cupertino-based company\u00A0licensed patents registered by Nokia last year, following a lengthy court battle between the smartphone makers."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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