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If you're not infringing the patent he can't sue you. But greater then that, these in-app purchase systems are generating revenues for the App Store vendors (Ap
by mikeryan 15y ago
If you're not infringing the patent he can't sue you. But greater then that, these in-app purchase systems are generating revenues for the App Store vendors (Apple and Google). The hope is to get the weight of those companies (and their legal teams) behind these small developers. Lodsys is trying very hard to pick off the weak. They don't want to get in a fight with Apple and Google though its very quickly heading that way.
- bad_user 15y agoIf Loudsys is a patent troll by definition, all Apple/Google can do is to invalidate their patents, which is really hard and very unlikely. Boycotting also works if everybody would do it. How would that work when one developer is boycotting and his competition is not (lots of copycats in both stores).
- mikeryan 15y agoall Apple/Google can do is to invalidate their patents Not entirely true Apple is a licensor of Lodsys's patents and claims their license covers their developers.