Apple and Samsung have agreed to participate in court-supervised mediation to try and finally find a settlement sum satisfactory to both parties over the first of their two US patent trials, which originally ended with a judgement against Samsung for $1.05 billion. Through various legal actions, that sum has been whittled down to half of its original amount, and is about to be re-scrutinized yet again in yet another damages retrial. The two companies will be meeting with a new judge sometime on or before November 15.
