And instead of settling this, they want to give all the money to lawyers???

As far as I know, both companies have full-time legal team, working for salaries. No additional money will be spent for the lawsuits. One could say, let those lawyers on the legal team earn their paycheques…

No additional money will be spent for the lawsuits.

Except for court fees.

Yes, except that is only partly true. Apple has a legal team. It, however, is mostly responsible for farming out the legal work and advising Apple’s executive team on courses of action.

Apple hires a law firm who likely gets paid by the hour to handle patent suits.

As far as I know, both companies have full-time legal team, working for salaries. No additional money will be spent for the lawsuits. One could say, let those lawyers on the legal team earn their paycheques…

Let me add that Apple hired a law firm by the name of Potter Anderson & Corroon and Wilmer Hale to handle the Nokia suit. It likely gets paid by the hour. Many big litigators make over four hundred dollars an hour. Do you honestly think Apple is going to use paper pushers, instead of seasoned litigators, to defend a lawsuit with billions on the line? Apple’s legal team deals mostly with issues of corporate governance [e.g. filing SEC docs] and farming out the serious litigation legal work to experts.

Further, Apple paid over two million dollars to third party attorneys fighting Psystar. Apple can’t afford to keep the best of the best of litigators on staff.

As far as I know, both companies have full-time legal team, working for salaries. No additional money will be spent for the lawsuits. One could say, let those lawyers on the legal team earn their paycheques…