SAN FRANCISCO — After two jury trials and counting, Apple’s hard-fought patent spat with Samsung has yielded about $930 million in damages for Apple and a handsome $60 million in fees for its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster.
The typically cagey company has offered a glimpse into its books as it fights to get Samsung on the hook for a portion of its attorney fees. In a motion filed Thursday evening, Apple lawyer Rachel Krevans of Morrison & Foerster told U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh that Samsung should have to fork over $15.7 million to compensate Apple. The Cupertino-based company is entitled to that “eminently reasonable” award for attorney fees because Samsung strategically copied the iPhone and a 2012 jury found that the infringement was willful, Krevans argued.
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