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And Apple’s apology to Samsung as order by the UK court just got even messier. After posting an apology they had to rewrite, and then pushing the rewritten one down the page with Javascript, a UK court has ordered Apple to pay Samsung’s legal fees in full to even things out.
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ordered Apple to pay Samsung’s legal fees on an “indemnity basis,” saying that Apple’s initial apology was “false and misleading” by virtue of referring to other cases outside of the UK (which Apple had won) to spin the whole thing in a sort of positive way. Typically losers already have to pay for the court costs of the winner in the UK, but this ruling takes that to the fullest extent of the law by basically extending it to cover every nickel and dime. It’s intended to serve as a little punishment to Apple for being rather snide about the whole thing. This should bring the whole saga to a close. Hopefully. [Groklaw via The Verge]
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Apply Iwater to burned area.
If they had done what the judge asked in the first place, this story would have been one day on the news and the embarrassment would have been much less.
They don’t want that, If you ask people on the street about this then most people only remember that the judge said that Apple products were cooler.
Any judge that calls something cool, renders it immediately not cool.
That was the case and it still would be if they just published it normally and moved along. Now, not so much.
No, if you ask people on the street about this they’d say “what?”
Depends which street. If it’s the top end of Regents Street they’d say “ouch”
This story is like saaaaand in my vaginaaaaa
You’re holding it wrong.
I thought you were getting a bit cranky
Whatever they’ll have to pay, even if they had to pay a billion, it would be pocket money to Apple.
Apple’s revenue is over £200,000,000 per DAY. The additional legal fees caused by assessment of costs on indemnity basis might be low tens of thousands or, put another way, 0.01% of Apple’s daily receipts.
If I were Tim Cook I wouldn’t be losing sleep over this.
I guess they opted for a “friction war” on UK courts, instead of going “thermonuclear”.
Just another reason my dis-like for Apple is growing.