Just two days ago I was telling you that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), asked an American court to compel the company Samsung to pay him 16 million dollars as part of the legal expenses caused by a lawsuit that he won in the USA. The amount represents only a quarter of the total paid by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), a law firm in the USA and what I didn't know then it is like all these 60 million dollars were paid by those from Cupertino for a single month of trial with Samsung.
Basically, we are talking about an enormous amount paid by Apple for only 30 days of legal battle, and to it is added another 2 million dollars paid by Apple to another law firm involved in the process for a single week. Considering that it won 280 million dollars from that process, Apple does not seem to come out "well" from the whole battle, the sums spent to obtain this victory being enormous compared to the infringements made by Samsung.
Basically, Samsung would have earned several billion dollars from infringing Apple's patents, and Americans have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually in lawsuits trying to prove this, and the results are not that great. Apple won 880 million dollars from a lawsuit filed against Samsung in 2011, but this amount probably covers all legal expenses and leaves little profit to be invested in the future.
