Corporate litigation can be highly expensive. And once initiated, parties may not always have a choice as to what they spend attorney time - and therefore money - on.
Hytera's attorney Boyd Cloern recently demonstrated this when he told a judge, "Please don't make me do a joint filing with [Motorola's firm] Kirkland every day, I'm begging you, because it literally burns $30,000 an hour," asking to lessen daily hearings and status reports required during Hytera's now-stayed contempt sanctions.
Due to the severity of the contempt sanctions - a worldwide ban and $1 million daily fine - the Judge's requirements were to ensure close monitoring of any compliance.
(See: Hytera Ordered to Stop Selling Two-Way Radio Technology Worldwide)
In other words, even when nothing had changed in the case - as on most days - the companies' attorneys were working on it.
This illustrates just how costly corporate litigation can be. This case has been ongoing since 2017, involving discovery, a trial, various appeals, past contempt proceedings, these recent contempt proceedings, and tens of thousands of pages of filings, if not more. Motorola and Hytera have surely spent millions each on litigation alone in this case.