A couple App Store developers have received lawsuits from Lodsys, a company claiming in-app purchases and ‘upgrade’ buttons are theirs. The company has previously filed papers lawsuits against printer companies such as HP, Canon, Brother, and Samsung.
Rather than feat after Apple, Lodsys is targeting developers directly. Rob Gloess of Computer LogicX, makers of Mix & Mash had this to say to MacRumors:
Our app, Mix & Mash, has the common model of a limited free, lite, edition and a flooded edition that contains every the features. We were told that the button that users click on to raise the app, or rather unification to the flooded edition on the app accumulation was in severance of US papers no 7222078, we couldn’t conceive it, the raise button!?!
The Lodsys Patent number 7222078, is described as:
Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Unites of A Commodity Across a Network (Abelow, justice H.)
Daneil Abelow is the founder of Lodsys and his client lists include Cisco, altruist University, IBM, and the IRS. Four patents are listed on their website. One of his papers descriptions list the following, which is what is in question correct now:
sell upgrades or gratis products
The legal threats weren’t only targetting one developer. Cult of Mac reports saint Thomson, the developer behind PCalc also ended up receiving a similar threat, but he didn’t go discover and study the company targeting him. It appears Lodsys is also behind this second lawsuit. saint has contacted Apple for counselling in this matter.
This is interesting Lodsys is feat after developers instead of Apple. Maybe because it knows it doesn’t defence a chance against Apple’s cut-throat legal team?
[MacRumors, Cult of Mac]
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