Lodsys explains why it’s not after Apple but only the developers for In-App Purchasing. Apple is licensed to use their patent, as a matter of fact both Google and Microsoft are also licensed.
Lodys sets the licensing fees:
Lodsys is seeking 0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent, plus applicable past usage. So on an application that sells US$1m worth of sales in a year, the licensee would have an economic exposure of $5,750 per year.
Lodsys also mentions that it has been getting a lot of hate mails including some death threats.
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so Apple, Google and Microsoft can cross the bridge, but not people who are riding with them?
This is what the iPad Auto-Correction thinks of Lodsys:
