Apple Strikes Back Against Lodsys, Files Motion to Intervene

The full Lodsys saga continues, as Apple has filed a change to interact according to highbrowed property activist, Florian Mueller, on his blog FOSS Patents:

But for Apple’s possess proposed participation as an intervenor it makes significance to pore on the theory of exhaustion (meaning that Lodsys can’t get paying twice for a licensed ingest of the patents in question). In unification with that portion defense theory, Apple has by farther the strongest foundation for asking to be admitted as an intervenor.

Mueller believes Apple module get the quantity to interact on behalf of its developers cod to previous precedents. However, he doesn’t count out the existence Lodsys’ infringement claim could vex the exhaustion argument.

Here’s a snippet from the filed Apple change (you crapper feature the rest here):

Apple Inc. (“Apple”) hereby respectfully moves to interact as a defendant and counterclaim litigator in the above-captioned state brought by litigator Lodsys, LLC(“Lodsys”) against seven software application developers (collectively, “Developers”), for allegedly infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 7,222,078 (the “’078 patent”) and 7,620,565 (the “’565patent” and, collectively, the “patents in suit”). Apple seeks to interact because it is expressly licensed to wage to the Developers products and services that embody the patents in suit, free from claims of infringement of those patents.

It’s a good sign that Apple is stepping up to protect its developers from patent trolls and not yield them behind. Apple is attempt Lodsys nous on, and this jural effort appears farther from over.

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