Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and its client Samsung have been ordered to pay over $2m (£1.2m) in legal fees and costs to Apple and Nokia for breaking a court order protecting a confidential patent licensing agreement.

A US court has ruled that Samsung and Quinn Emanuel are to pay Nokia around $1.15m (£677,000) and nearly $894,000 (£526,000) to Apple, for costs incurred in litigating Apple’s motion for sanctions against the pair and the discovery associated with it.