Apple and Samsung have been fighting in courts around the world for more than a year, and at one point Samsung said that has 200 million dollars allocated only for these problems, and the amount could be completely spent if things do not calm down. Until one more time, those from cNET they managed to obtain some documents in which the prices demanded by the law firms representing Apple and Samsung in the US lawsuits are presented.
In the case of Apple, we are talking about a document in which the hours of work and the fees requested by the lawyers for each hour worked for Apple are presented, but everything is calculated only for a single motion by which sanctions were requested against Samsung. In the case of this motion, 10 people worked 232 hours for Apple and the company paid $116,668.50, the highest fee of a lawyer being $768. Considering that we are talking about a single motion, you can imagine how much Apple paid for a 3-week trial or for the other motions it had in the US.
In the case of Samsung, we have a similar document in which the fees paid by the company to a law firm that worked on 3 motions are available, and here the best paid lawyer received $1035 per hour. In total, Samsung paid $258.200.50 to the law firm for 262 hours worked for the 3 motions, but of course the lawsuit against Apple or the rest of the US motions is not included. What we see here represents only a small part of the legal expenses of the two companies, legal expenses that in the whole world probably amount to several tens of millions of dollars.
