>reductio ad absurdum iPhone and Android developers are being sued by a patent troll for using in-app payments [1], based on technology developed by Apple and

>reductio ad absurdum iPhone and Android developers are being sued by a patent troll for using in-app payments [1], based on technology developed by Apple and Google, using a patent that doesn't even apply to any of the code written by the developers. [2] To make it worse, Apple and Google each own licenses to the patent, so it's like people who own washing machines being sued over a washing machine patent that the manufacturer has already licensed. Oh, and iPhone developers are being sued over apps that include "forms that send data to a central server" by another troll. [3] Yeah. How much more absurd can it get? I think someone already had your idea, and they decided to turn it into a business plan. [1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/5-links-to-help-ios-developers-understand-the-lodsys-patent-mess.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/5-links-to-help-i... [2] http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_lodsys_letter_text.html http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_l... [3] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/macrosolve-joins-lodsys-in-suing-mobile-app-developers.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/macrosolve-joins-...