Apple spent more than 60 million dollars on lawyers to fight with Samsung
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has already made great sacrifices to go on both sides of the conflict. And new documents that have appeared in court with Apple hand, allow us to estimate the scale of this litigation for the company from Cupertino. According to them, "Yabloko" has We spent on lawyers for this court case more than 60 million (!) of dollars and require Samsung repay them some of the losses.
Namely, kupertinovtsy required to recover from the Korean company 15.7 million dollars to cover the costs for the work hired on the side of lawyers and advocates to defend the interests of Apple in this litigation patentntom two tehnogigantov. Predstavieli company from Cupertino pretty emotionally explained his request to the court:
Our request for compensation is quite logical, given how Samsung willfully and intentionally copied our achievements on the iPhone - is an egregious case of neglect of our intellectual property
And with them is hard not to agree is not it?
According to Apple, they paid the law firm Morrison & Foerster for the services provided over $ 60 million, not counting those lawyers who received less than 100 thousand dollars for his work. And that, according to Apple, is still a good price, because Morrison & Foerster
We gave them a discount, as the long-time customers. Without it, it would have come even more.We hope that the court will make the right decision, and those who exist only due to theft of ideas and developments, will be punished. Show must go on!