Apple Patent Battles Create Lawyer Boon at $1,200 an Hour

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-23/apple-patent-battles-create-lawyer-boon-at-1-200-an-hour.html

Apple Inc. has spent at least $32 million in one patent-infringement dispute with Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility unit -- one among many legal fights on four continents.

Add them up and it’s clear the Cupertino, California-based company is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in its quest to prove that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), Motorola Mobility and HTC Corp. ripped off the iPhone.