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A Samsung Galaxy S III and an iPhone 4S. (GTres)

electronics giants Samsung and Apple have reached an agreement to end the legal dispute over patents that keep their products outside the United States, said Wednesday the South Korean firm.

“Samsung and Apple have agreed to abandon all lawsuits between the two companies outside the United States, “said Samsung Electronics in a brief joint statement.

Both companies litigating patents phones smartphones and tablets since 2011, when Apple sued Samsung for copying the design of its products The statement, published today by Samsung Electronics in Seoul, clarifies that the agreement with Apple “ involves no licensing pact and both companies will continue in ongoing litigation in U.S. courts. “

In addition to the U.S., where the patent battle between Apple and Samsung reaches a larger, the two firms remain legal disputes in South Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK, France and Australia .

The decision comes after the court in May federal San Jose (California) ordered to indemnify Samsung to Apple with $ 119.6 million (approximately EUR 90 million) in a new chapter in the legal war in the U.S. which began in , 2011.

The jury gave the verdict found that Samsung had copied its smartphones across two benefits iPhone five claimed by Apple, while only plagiarized in some of its models another of benefits and did not with the other two.

Cross demands and trials worldwide between the two tech titans have been constant, with victories for Apple in most cases.

So, in total, the South Korean company owes more than 1,000 million (746 million euros) to its rival mainly by the rulings in U.S. courts.

Samsung and Apple have appealed without exception all verdicts against, so that the process is now living a second part in which the efforts of a and other companies focus on trying to prove that the alleged damage plagiarism competition have caused on their sales and expansion plans.

Both companies litigating Patent smartphones and tablets since 2011, when Apple sued Samsung for copying the design their products , to which the South Korean firm responded by suing the U.S. patent violation 3G.