{"id":5960,"date":"2011-05-16T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:32:35","slug":"can-we-cross-the-bridge-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/16\/can-we-cross-the-bridge-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we cross the bridge now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lodsys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> why it&#8217;s not after Apple but only the developers for In-App Purchasing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/1\/post\/2011\/05\/q-lodsys-is-trying-to-force-apple-to-take-a-license-by-pressuring-ios-developers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple is licensed<\/a> to use their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/7222078.html\" target=\"_blank\">patent<\/a>, as a matter of fact both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/1\/post\/2011\/05\/q-what-about-other-operating-systems-such-as-android.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google and Microsoft<\/a> are also licensed.<\/p>\n<p>Lodys sets the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/1\/post\/2011\/05\/q-what-are-you-charging.html\" target=\"_blank\">licensing fees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.\u00a0 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lodsys also mentions that it has been getting a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/1\/post\/2011\/05\/responding-and-clarifying-apologies-for-taking-some-time-to-respond-however-the-flash-mob-speculation-of-the-blogspress-the-amazing-amount-of-spam-death-threats-hateful-bile-to-marks-email-and-just-a-lot-to-respond-to-on-top-of-day-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">hate mails<\/a> including some death threats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/11\/05\/16\/lodsys_explains_its_legal_threats_apple_is_licensed_ios_developers_are_not.html\" target=\"_blank\">AppleInsider<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodnn.com\/articles\/11\/05\/16\/says.apple.pixie.dust.no.protection.for.devs\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPodNN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2011\/05\/16\/lodsys-responds-to-controversy-over-lawsuit-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacRumors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>so Apple, Google and Microsoft can cross the bridge, but not people who are riding with them?<\/p>\n<p>This is what the iPad Auto-Correction thinks of Lodsys:<\/p>\n<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lodsys explains why it&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/16\/can-we-cross-the-bridge-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can we cross the bridge now?&#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],"tags":[403,404,1296,933,1587,1594,1639,1832,1888,2009,934,2272,2511,936,3039],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-google","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-lawsuits","tag-lodsys","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-patent","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1y8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}