SAN JOSE, Calif. — The judge presiding over an intellectual property dispute between Apple and Samsung said the chief executives of the contending companies should talk again before the jury begins deliberating.
“I’m going to make one more request, that CEOs from both sides speak by phone,” U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said in federal court Wednesday. “I see risks here for both sides,” she said.
Koh earlier this year ordered Apple CEO Tim Cook to meet face to face with his counterpart at Samsung, Choi Gee Sung. That conference didn’t yield a settlement.
“It’s at least worth one more try,” the judge said.
Apple sued Samsung in April 2011, accusing it of copying patented designs for mobile devices, and Samsung countersued.
The case is the first to go before a federal jury in a battle being waged on four continents for dominance in a smartphone market valued by Bloomberg Industries at $219.1 billion.
