Christoph, well done overall and I'm certainly on your side with respect to the copyright issue, but your position on the lawyers doesn't hold up as well.

Attempting to quash a subpoena is almost standard procedure. Under precisely what law is that "willful ignorance"?

Your response mixes together what the other party knew and did and what his lawyers knew and did. It also mixes together the court's findings-of-fact with what the lawyers knew, should have known, were told, and were required to do. Moreover, you are simply wrong about what the lawyers' responsibility was. Lawyers need not have "personal knowledge" of the facts claimed to be true. They need only believe the facts claimed to be true based on information from the client. We could certainly argue about whether that's good public policy, but that's the way it is. And finding out midway that the client's story may be false does not necessarily equate to malicious prosecution or abuse of process.

Looks like the OP settled with the non-lawyers early on the MP claims. What result there?

As for the lawyers, the sole piece of evidence the OP seems to have presented that the lawyers knew their clients were lying is a late-October 2007 note. This note was written well after the trial commenced. It doesn't indicate that the lawyers knew or had reason to know from jump-street that the clients were lying. It indicates only (if anything) that perhaps they were not aggressive enough in doing fact investigation or in terminating the litigation already underway.

Am I missing something? If not, the courts' decisions appear to be decent.

Actually, just now the first Google result for "How do I compute the coupling coefficient for a transformer given the data sheet parameters?" is this thread. ;-)

I guess "Thinking Different" means using child- and forced-labor sweatshops to produce hot gear? Excellent! I can't wait to rush out and buy several pairs, so eager to line Phil Knight's pockets! Better still, Nike can soon use the Nike+ wireless transmitters to monitor the motion of the 5-year-olds manufacturing the shoes, and get the bosses over to the slackers for a flogging that much faster. This will mean increased productivity -- no price drop, but Nike's profits will increase! Yay!