{"id":5943,"date":"2011-05-14T02:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T09:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2011-05-14T02:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T09:46:35","slug":"rage-against-patent-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/14\/rage-against-patent-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage Against Patent Troll."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday May 13th, 2011 some iOS App Developers revealed that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2011\/05\/13\/lodsys-threatens-to-sue-app-store-developers-over-purchase-links\/\" target=\"_blank\">being sued by Lodsys for In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links<\/a>. This lawsuit baffles many developers since Developers are using API in iOS SDK provided by Apple for In-App Purchasing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/ios-devs-under-fire-by-patent-troll-for-offering-in-app-purchases\/94916\" target=\"_blank\">Lodsys so far is suing the Developers, but not Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam C. Engst provided a <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12174\" target=\"_blank\">great analysis<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It\u2019s entirely unclear why Lodsys has chosen this approach \u2014 their lawyers have undoubtedly read the iOS Developer Program License Agreement and know that the iOS developers can\u2019t settle. And they\u2019ve chosen such small targets that there\u2019s no way they could even cover their legal fees with what they could squeeze out. The only strategy that makes sense is that by targeting small developers, they put additional pressure on Apple to settle quickly.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple should respond to this lawsuit even though it is not <em>yet<\/em> directed at them.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, this is what the iPad think about Lodsys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lodsys-are-losers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lodsys are Losers\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lodsys-are-losers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday May 13th, 2011 some iOS App Developers revealed that they are being sued by Lodsys for In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links. This lawsuit baffles many developers since Developers are using API in iOS SDK provided by Apple for In-App Purchasing. Lodsys so far is suing the Developers, but not Apple. Adam C. Engst &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/14\/rage-against-patent-troll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rage Against Patent Troll.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[374,403,404,426,933,1587,1594,1639,1831,2009,2511,2639,936,3039],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-api","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-autocorrect","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-lawsuit","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-sdk","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1xR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}