Last week, we found out about Apple's offer to license a bundle of IP — including its iPhone and iPad design patents — to Samsung back in 2010. Today Reuters reports that Apple proposed a similar deal to Microsoft, and the folks in Redmond took them up on the offer. Details of the license itself are scarce, but the deal did, naturally, include a provision expressly prohibiting iDevice copies. So, for folks figuring that Microsoft might face a litigious future similar to Samsung's, think again.
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