Samsung, Apple CEOs to talk patent dispute

By Cho Mu-hyun

Samsung Electronics chief executive Choi Gee-sung left for the United States Sunday where he plans to meet Apple CEO Tim Cook to attempt to resolve a widening patent row between the two technology giants.

Choi, accompanied by Shin Jong-kyun, head of Samsung’s mobile devices division, is scheduled to meet Cook at a court in San Francisco Monday to engage in two days of discussions as the companies seek to navigate out of their complicated intellectual property dispute over smartphones and touch-screen tablets.

The relationship between the two companies have been eroding since April last year when Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung for ``slavishly copying’’ the look and feel of iPhones and iPads in promoting