What I'm also interested in is how much money do lawsuits like these cost.
Both companies have large amounts of cash, so this isn't one of those cases where the one with the most money wins, but I do expect both of them to spend a lot.
When you've got two massive companies and potentially billions of dollars resting on a case then it will keep going up until there is no more up to go to.
They have many orders of magnitude more money and attorneys that would work full-time on such a case to ensure that even if they lost the court battle, the person or company doing the thing that they didn't like would be effectively bankrupted, so they still win in the end.
It's a company with $40bn revenue, you better believe they have a fleet of lawyers on retainer, they've got little reason to not make use of those lawyers.
Seriously surprising to hear that money-conscious lawyers might agree to such a piddly amount ($415M) from 4 companies whose collective market cap is over 1 trillion dollars. This is palatable only if it comes with significant sanctions and admission of wrongdoing, which of course, is highly doubtful.
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