{"id":3396,"date":"2011-05-13T19:49:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2011-05-17T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:02:52","slug":"lodsys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/lodsys\/","title":{"rendered":"Small iOS Developers Targeted Over In-App Purchase Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12174\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12174\"><p> So what it comes down to is that Thomson, McCarron, and other iOS developers are being threatened by Lodsys for using Apple intellectual property under license from Apple, in such a fashion that they cannot even settle without violating the iOS Developer Program License Agreement. They can&rsquo;t legally agree that Apple&rsquo;s In App Purchase API violates Lodsys&rsquo;s patents, and no matter what, there&rsquo;s no way Apple would give permission for such a settlement due to the chilling effect it would have on iOS development in general.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2011-05-17): <a href=\"http:\/\/mur.mu.rs\/?p=116\">Mike Lee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mur.mu.rs\/?p=116\"><p>If using a platform-provided API is not free from the odious weight of software patents, then software development as a cottage industry is no longer practicable. Make no mistake, Lodsys demonstrates that software patents threaten our very way of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fosspatents.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/what-app-developers-need-to-know-about.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/fosspatents.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/what-app-developers-need-to-know-about.html\"><p>Lodsys&rsquo;s position is that Apple&rsquo;s license does not cover what the targeted app devs do. I have looked at the patent and I guess that the alleged infringement really relates to the commands executed by the apps themselves. I don&rsquo;t know whether implementing Apple&rsquo;s API inevitably leads to what the alleged infringement is about. My feeling is it&rsquo;s probably not inevitable: I guess there are ways to make use of Apple&rsquo;s in-app purchase API that don&rsquo;t result in the fact pattern that Lodsys claims to be an infringement.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: So what it comes down to is that Thomson, McCarron, and other iOS developers are being threatened by Lodsys for using Apple intellectual property under license from Apple, in such a fashion that they cannot even settle without violating the iOS Developer Program License Agreement. They can&rsquo;t legally agree that Apple&rsquo;s In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}