Late Friday afternoon, Google and Apple released a joint statement saying that they would drop all patent litigation between the two companies, the Wall Street Journal reported.

"The two companies informed a federal appeals court in Washington that the cases should be dismissed," Reuters also noted.

The suits date back to 2010, when Motorola sued Apple for patent infringement, spurring a retaliation patent suit from Apple. Google bought Motorola Mobility in 2012, in part to acquire the company’s massive patent portfolio as protection for its Android operating system. After Google’s purchase, the lawsuits between Apple and Motorola continued plodding along, metastasizing into "about 20 different lawsuits against each other in jurisdictions in the US and Germany," wrote the WSJ.

The most watched US patent litigation between the two companies was under Judge Richard Posner in Chicago, who dismissed the case before trial in 2012. Posner found that both sides' damages cases were so weak it wasn't worth litigating.

The top patent appeals court issued a ruling last month striking down much of Posner's ruling. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit effectively gave Apple a second shot at winning damages or an injunction in that case. Now, it looks like Apple has decided to strike a deal and not take that second shot.

The Posner case was the highest-profile US litigation, but there were also active lawsuits between Google and Apple in Florida, California, Wisconsin, and the ITC.

Today, the agreement between Apple and Google nullifies all of those lawsuits, although the two companies said that no cross-licensing deals have been made. "Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform,” the two companies said, according to Reuters.

Earlier this year, Google agreed to sell Motorola’s handset business to Lenovo, although it said it would keep Motorola’s patents. The sale to Lenovo has not yet been completed.