Apple offered to licence iOS technologies to Samsung in 2010: $40 a tablet, $30 a phone

Samsung’s and Apple’s legal battle continues to “leak” information. The trial is public, which means that we get a ton of news regarding the two companies. One thing that was made public this week, is the fact that in October 2010, Apple executives met with Samsung executives in hopes to settle Apple’s claims on Samsung infringing on Apple’s iPhone and iPad patents.

Apple proposed a licensing deal with Samsung where Samsung would pay $40 for every sold tablet and $30 for every sold phone. Additionally, if Samsung agreed to cross-licence its applicable patents to Apple, the $40 and $30 deal per unit would see a discount of 20%. This obviously  never happened, and the two companies are now battling it out in court.

Samsung chose to embrace and imitate Apple’s iPhone archetype,” Apple said in an Oct. 5, 2010 presentation to Samsung. “Apple would have preferred that Samsung request a license to do this in advance. Because Samsung is a strategic supplier to Apple, we are prepared to offer a royalty-bearing license for this category of device.

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