“Today — on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 — Lodsys filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (the place in which I predicted that it would do so) against seven little iOS app developers,” Florian Mueller reprots for FOSS Patents.
“Lodsys asserts two of its four patents: U.S. Patent No. 7,620,565 (‘the ‘565 patent’) on a ‘customer-based design module’ and U.S. Patent No. 7,222,078 (‘the ‘078 patent’) on ‘Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network,'” Mueller reports. “Note that Lodsys so far emphasized the ‘078 patent, although Lodsys always mentioned its other patents as well.”
Mueller reports, “Very importantly, this lawsuit is not limited to iOS but also targets Android in at least one case… [along with] the Mac version of Twitterriffic, which is explicitly accused in the complaint.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Lodsys also threatens Android developers with legal action over in-app purchases – May 27, 2011
Full text: Apple Legal’s letter to Lodsys – May 23, 2011
Apple: iOS developers already licensed for Lodsys patents – May 23, 2011
EFF calls on to Apple defend iOS developers in Lodsys legal threats – May 21, 2011
Following Lodsys legal threats, Apple reportedly stops approving iOS apps with In-App Purchases – May 18, 2011
Lodsys defends legal threats: Apple is licensed, iOS developers are not – May 16, 2011
Lodsys threatens Apple App Store devs with lawsuit over In-App Purchases – May 13, 2011
When these scumbag lawyers aren’t busy harassing app developers, they’re busy molesting goats.
Specifically baby orphan goats, and cute snow seal pups, too.
Lodsys lawyers just raped my dog and burned my girlfriend!!!
You were Lucky!
Eastern TX!? shocker.
Can’t wait for apple’s reply.
Eastern Texas – where men are men, the cattle are scared, and women are jealous.
And the judges are easy on trolls.
Definition of a Patent Troll = Eastern Texas.
This is going to be interesting. So what did Apple license, if Lodsys can go after app developers as well?
I would love to see Apple swoop in here and offer to defend all the app developers from Lodsys, then hand it to these guys. Apple licensed their IP in good faith, and now they’re just getting greedy.
It would be funny if the court eventually found their patents to be invalid!
Is Lodsys a publicly traded company? It’s probably easier for Apple to buy them in a hostile takeover than it us to defend the developers in this court.
Time for Apple to indemnify the developers. It will be interesting to compare the path Apple takes versus the one Google takes.
Pathetic f*cks. They are avoiding my calls on my patent for a “beige painted metal box with electronic bits inside”. I am sure they are using my “invention” without having paid me any licensing fees.
FYI, there is no such place as “Eastern Texas”. It’s just East Texas, West Texas, South Texas, Central Texas, or North Texas.
who gives a toss? an eastern shithole is still a shithole.
You know nothing about East Texas, but know a lot about being an idiot. It’s a beautiful place.
This is from Wikipedia: “The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over the eastern part of Texas and is a part of the Fifth Circuit.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Texas
Correction, the ED court is a continuing crimal enterprise and the whole lot of the shysters should be keelhauled then beaten like a rented mule.
What’s the status of that bill in the Texas legislature (aka the National Laboratory for Bad Government — we miss you Molly Ivins) forcing the loser to pay all the costs for a crap lawsuit?
A state has NO jurisdiction over a Federal court. The Texas legislators can only pass laws for courts of the State of Texas.
Perry signed it into law yesterday.
But i think Silverhawk1 is right, may be texans vs texans though.
But.. another state down, the more that pass tort reform laws like this, the Federal laws will become easier to pass.
Just trying to scare the flock in a desperate attempt to get some precedent. Pathetic.
http://themacadvocate.com/2011/05/31/lodsys-cockroaches-remain-undeterred-under-shadow-of-apples-giant-shoe/
I wonder if there’s any shadowy connection between Lodsys and Psystar. Even their names feel related.
Another reason to be suspicious of the motives behind Lodsys: the original 21-day deadline they gave small developers would have expired right around the weekend before WWDC. How much you want to bet their original plan was to unleash their lawsuits during the WWDC keynote on 6/6?
In other possibly coincidental news, US antitrust oversight of Microsoft ended May 12. Lodsys started their legal threats May 13.
I like this conspiracy theory!
Apple will take care of this, sooner or later. It is in Apple’s best interest to do so, and they might as well get full use out of their own legal corps.
SPAM
MALWARE
GOOGLE
SAMSUNG
LODSYS
Add NETGEARr and ADOBE for good measure.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Henry VI Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
=:~)
After keelhauling them and beating them like mules
Wondering if the plaintiff would request the court to exclude iPhone/iPad/iPod users during voir dire. You could wind up with a jury full of Apple haters, and in that venue, jurors tend to vote their personal resentments.