Apple and Samsung agree to mediation
 

Apple and Samsung might actually agree to bury the hatchet a few weeks before they go to court to play out their thermonuclear war over software patents.

The two sides have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon will attend the session with in-house lawyers only, according to a Wednesday court filing. Their legal teams had met on January 6 to "discuss settlement opportunities," the filing read.

Details of the meeting are sketchy, but it does seem that the two sides really want an end to the somewhat silly court actions which were started by Apple's temporal and spiritual leader Steve Jobs.

Jobs had a plan to patent troll Samsung out of the market by any legal means possible because he was insulted that Samsung had stolen the idea which he stole from Nokia for a touch screen smartphone.

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