{"id":6059,"date":"2011-06-01T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T07:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T07:02:38","slug":"lodsys-responds-to-apple-by-suing-ios-developers-earlier-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/06\/01\/lodsys-responds-to-apple-by-suing-ios-developers-earlier-than-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodsys responds to Apple by suing iOS Developers earlier than planned."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2011\/05\/31\/lodsys-responds-to-apple-files-lawsuits-against-app-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lodsys moves to sue iOS Developers<\/a> earlier than planned as a respond to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160031\/2011\/05\/apple_legal_lodsys_letter_text.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple&#8217;s threat<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lodsys&#8217; blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Why did Lodsys sue some App Developers on May 31, 2011?<\/p>\n<p>Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple&#8217;s threat, in order to preserve its legal options.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lodsys also sent <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/android-discuss\/browse_thread\/thread\/cc9e7843da5c34b6\/6a9241ce21c75568\" target=\"_blank\">Legal threats to Android Developers<\/a> regarding in-app-purchasing patent.<\/p>\n<p>Lodsys revealed that Apple, Google and Microsoft are already licensee of Lodsys&#8217; patent portfolio. Apple, Google and Microsoft could seek to invalidate Lodsys patent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, this is what the iPhone 4 thinks of Lodsys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0683.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"What iOS 4 thinks of Lodsys\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0683-480x720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lodsys moves to sue iOS Developers earlier than planned as a respond to &#8220;Apple&#8217;s threat&#8220;. From Lodsys&#8217; blog: Q: Why did Lodsys sue some App Developers on May 31, 2011? Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple&#8217;s threat, in order to preserve its legal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/06\/01\/lodsys-responds-to-apple-by-suing-ios-developers-earlier-than-planned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lodsys responds to Apple by suing iOS Developers earlier than planned.&#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":[327,403,404,859,1296,933,1831,1842,1888,2009,2272,2511,936],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-android","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-developers","tag-google","tag-ios","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-1zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}