No such luck: Apple, Samsung say peace talks are off – way off If you were thinking last week's patent settlement between Apple and Google's former Motorola division might lead to a similar détente between Apple and Samsung, you probably shouldn't get your hopes up. Although the Korea Times reported on Monday that the two rivals were close to settling all of their litigation – and there …
Besides, the costs of the lawyers are amortized over the millions of devices each company sells. They SOUND expensive until you compare them to their annual revenues (making it a case of millions vs. billions). For them, lawyers are simply The Cost of Doing Business (tm), and in relative terms not that big a cost at that.
"Samsung's refusal even to agree that it will not argue that Apple's participation in the ADR process can be used in future injunction or royalty proceedings makes clear that Samsung has no interest in entering into a meaningful ADR procedure or ceasing use of Apple's intellectual property," Cupertino's statement to the court reads.
Would someone mind explaining just what that statement means? Near as I can tell, Apple thinks that agreeing to negotiate will somehow weaken their position in future litigation, and they want Samsung to agree in advance not to take advantage of said weakness, whatever that might be.
Huh?
You know how in American TV cartoons you sometimes get a bully taking a smaller kid's hand and forcing them to slap themselves, whilst repeating "Stop slapping yourself" over and over? That was the image I got from that statement.
Not that either side is whiter than white in this area, but I do wish Apple would just STFU and get back to making products and writing software.
GJC
Why would the lawyers be interested in an amicable settlement, this means they don't get to charge their court appearance fees.
Reminds me of when I bought my last house, the solicitors spent a couple of weeks wrangling over one little (well understood) problem. I then spoke to the builder and explained the situation and that I knew you could buy insurance against the problem for about £100, he replied "OK to split it?" "Sure" job done.
The lawyers will continue to fight.
Hopefully saner minds will negotiate behind the scenes in private.
But hey, how many saner minds are there?
It seems that arguing with Apple is like arguing with my wife since her idea of an amicable and reasonable compromise is that I admit I'm wrong on every issue and that I should never ever dare to suggest ever, ever again that she might be wrong about anything.
Paris, because I'm glad she's not my wife
agree Corporate squabbles with companies (and their groups) with over 100m dollars turnover should be paying the court the SUM of each sides legal fees. Then maybe the public courts and public defenders could get a chunk of that cash. Judges to be the sole arbitors of whether the company is worth 100m or not and what the lawyers are worth if they try a pro-bono dodge.
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