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How Apple Handles App Store Infringement Complaints: Badly
- andrewljohnson 17y agoHe needs to lawyer up it seems. Get a lawyer to send Apple and the competitor a note on letterhead saying that the dispute is without merit and that if Apple proceeds with pulling the app, there will be hell to pay.
- StrawberryFrog 17y agoLawyers are expensive. Then point of the article is that Apple could, quite cheaply, have done their homework and he wouldn't have that large expense. iPhone development - it's not cheap, once you factor in the lawyer.
- gonzo 17y agolawyers are part of the expense of doing business.
- StrawberryFrog 17y ago... Which Apple has made an externality to them. Greatly increasing the total cost but hey, not Apple's problem any more.
- tptacek 17y agoAre you an iPhone developer? Do you want a similar, competing application out of the App Store? Do you want to spend the next 18 months of your life in court, instead of developing applications? All you need to do is send an fraudulent infringement claim to Apple.
- kevinpet 17y agoThis doesn't appear fraudulent in any legal sense. DMCA: recipient pretty much must act under the assumption it's legitimate, legal action can be taken against someone who files one fraudulently. This case: Apple is free to apply common sense, but no guarantee they will, and no legal action is really possible against "someone sends something making vague claims of proprietary technology". It doesn't use any magic phrases that have meaning, like "patent pending", and it doesn't claim to be a DMCA takedown, so if Apple decides to yank an app, that's between Apple and the developer they screwed over.
- tptacek 17y agoWhether or not your infringement claim was really based on reasonable evidence is something we'll find out in discovery, won't we? If you get Apple to remove my software from the app store, and I sue you (and I almost certainly will), and it turns out that your claim to Apple was frivolous, your liability is going to be sick.
- cmelbye 17y agoYeah, people abuse the legal system. What's new?
- DenisM 17y agoAnd just when you thought it doesn't get any worse, it does. Hurray, Apple, I guess.
- gonzo 17y agoI hope the cite all the prior art in their patent application.
- thejay 17y agoThere are app stores people complain about and there are app stores nobody uses. Nothing new here.
- robak 17y agoThis is why I don't develop for iPhone. Have no time to waste for these commies from SF.