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“Reuters” (http://macte.ch/y6t3o) reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been holding behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies.

Quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter,” the article says the two CEOs had a phone conversation last week. One source told “Reuters” that a meeting was scheduled for this Friday, but had been delayed for reasons that were unclear.

Google, responding to an U.S. jury verdict that found that Samsung infringed Apple patents, said most of the claims “don’t relate to the core Android” software used in mobile devices, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/n7ur2).

“The court of appeals will review both infringement and the validity of the patent claims,” the company said in an email statement. “Most of these don’t relate to the core Android operating system, and several are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent Office.”

The International Trace Commission (ITC) has ruled that Apple didn’t infringe two patents owned by Google’s Motorola Mobility unit for wireless technologies used throughout the electronics industry. However, the ITC didn’t completely resolve the companies’ dispute, ordering a trade judge to reconsider Motorola Mobility’s claim that Apple violated another patent, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/iU7rz).