Apple and Samsung could soon end their ongoing legal tussles in a settlement as a San Franciso Federal Court ordered the tech rivals to possibly come up with a solution that would dissolve their differences, reports said.

Citing a blog posting from the Web site Foss Patents, the Australian Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Apple and Samsung have agreed to sit down and resolve their legal spars without going into full-blown trials.

"The parties have indicated they are willing to participate in a Magistrate Judge Settlement Conference," the blog reported San Francisco District Court Judge Lucy Koh as saying in the court order.

Ms Koh in turn forwarded the matter to an MJSC division, which AAP said will be presided over by Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero.

As indicated in the court order, the Foss Patents blog has reported that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook will personally meet with his Samsung counterpart, Gee-Sung Choi, with the two tech titans given 90 days by the court to find a way out of their legal problems.

Apple has accused Samsung, one of its key product component suppliers, of copying specific features and designs of its bestselling iPads and iPhones, which were then deployed to Samsung's flagship lines of Galaxy tablets and smartphones.

Samsung, in retaliation, asked a U.S. court to stop the sale of iPhone, which the South Korean firm claimed adopted specific Samsung-owned technologies outside of proper licensure agreement.

The two companies' series of litigations in key markets around the world were set to begin July this year but experts viewed the news as a likely early solution that could end the disputes.

According to ZDNet Australia, Mr Cook appears to be inclined in discussing out-of-court settlements on the Apple-Samsung legal rows, citing an earlier report by Bloomberg.

"Cook appears to view litigation as a necessary evil, not a vehicle of cosmic revenge ... and does not seem to share his predecessor's passion about laying all foes to waste," the Bloomberg report said.

Walter Isaacson, biographer of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has mentioned in his book that the Apple co-founder was convinced that Android-powered gadgets were operating on technologies exclusively developed and owned by Apple.

The mobile platform is being distributed free-of-charge by Google, one of Apple's fiercest rivals.

Prior to his death October last year and in one of the liberal interview sessions he granted to Isaacson, Mr Jobs reportedly expressed anger over the existence of the Android OS, which he characterised as a 'stolen product'.

Eliminating Android from the market was one of Jobs' priority missions, ZDNet Australia said.

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," Mr Jobs reportedly vented in one of his personal talks with Mr Isaacson, who last year released the blockbuster Steve Jobs bio-book, a few weeks after the tech icon died due to complications that arose from his pancreatic cancer.