{"id":6038,"date":"2011-05-27T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2011-05-27T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:41:17","slug":"lodsys-also-threatens-android-developers-over-patent-google-its-your-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/27\/lodsys-also-threatens-android-developers-over-patent-google-its-your-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodsys also threatens Android Developers over patent. Google, it&#8217;s your move."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After gaining a lot of attention for sending lawsuit threat to numbers of iOS Developers, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/android-discuss\/browse_thread\/thread\/cc9e7843da5c34b6\/6a9241ce21c75568\" target=\"_blank\">Lodsys is also going after Android Developers<\/a> over in-app purchasing patent. Lodsys in its Q&amp;A blog explained why its going after individual developers but not Apple, Google and Microsoft; that&#8217;s because the three companies have already licensed the four patents in question.<\/p>\n<p>On May 23rd, 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160031\/2011\/05\/apple_legal_lodsys_letter_text.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Legal sent a letter to Lodsys<\/a> stating that Apple is licensed to all four patents in the Lodsys portfolio. Any iOS Applications published in iTunes App Store are essentially covered by the license.<\/p>\n<p>Android Developers are hoping Google to do the same with what Apple did for its Developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After gaining a lot of attention for sending lawsuit threat to numbers of iOS Developers, Lodsys is also going after Android Developers over in-app purchasing patent. Lodsys in its Q&amp;A blog explained why its going after individual developers but not Apple, Google and Microsoft; that&#8217;s because the three companies have already licensed the four patents &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/27\/lodsys-also-threatens-android-developers-over-patent-google-its-your-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lodsys also threatens Android Developers over patent. Google, it&#8217;s your move.&#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":[4],"tags":[327,403,404,1296,933,1587,1594,1639,1827,1831,1842,1888,2009,2272,2511,936],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-google","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-law","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-lodsys","tag-media","tag-patent","tag-resources","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","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=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}