The teenager, who has been at the centre of litigation between her two fathers and two "mothers" for half of her life, had been trying to persuade a judge in the Family Division of the High Court that she should be left to "reach her own conclusions" under the provisions of the 1989 Children Act.
Told at its simplest level, Hadley v. Baxendale is the tale of a litigation contest between two local merchants and a London-based entrepreneur in which the local jury decided for the local merchants and the London judges asserted the priority of their judgment for the national entrepreneur.
In the joint statement, the two tech giants said they "…have agreed to drop all litigation between the two companies outside the United States".
The N.F.L. rebuffed Comcast and put the eight games a year on the NFL Network, a flash point in litigation between the two sides that was eventually settled.
Directors of the two companies and shareholders of K.C.S.I. must still approve the agreement which would also end litigation between the two companies.
So don't expect a similar easing of tensions in patent litigation between those two, or between Apple and other companies where Cupertino hasn't yet achieved one of those two goals mentioned above, statements regarding innovation notwithstanding.
Details of the agreement, which resolves the litigation between the two companies, were not released.
The announcement by Samsung did not end litigation between the two companies in Europe.
