Company claims to buy a Apple patent application, and contacted at least five developers of applications for Internal Oversight Services in the U.S. and the UK required for licensing.This method was developed by application developers, not knowing if Apple bothered to cover the costs of any legal information about applications is that although it has been used by several companies and developer tools for creating applications.And on Sunday, the restaurant and a claim to the hand of James Thomson, the application developer based in Glasgow and Drag Thing PCalc wrote. One of them, sending the package at Matt Brown, a developer in Toledo, Ohio, the author of a comprehensive set of best-selling children iPhone, mobile
application development, interactive terminal receives base. Patrick has also affected Mobile Age, based in Chicago, which is also the application.
Claims comes from the Texas-based company called Lodsys, who said four patents for the acquisition and use in context and online advertising, interactive online help, and renew the subscription. Listed on the site.
Lodsys is a licensed patent Dan Abelow, a graduate of Harvard University, which sells five patents that explicitly developed in 2004: I went to four Lodsys to a company called Webvention.
Abelow told The Guardian that he was unaware of the companies that license their patents. The owner of the land and licensees include patents, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nokia, along with about 200 other companies.
"The concept of patents by Lodsys before the Internet is," Abelow told The Guardian. "The idea was that if I sat and kept on hand and use the product, why if this were not aware of his behavior, digital, and put your requests the seller to be able to communicate with you." And for the patent in 1992 applied for and granted in 1999, making it valid for another 15 years.
Try the guardian of the young Mark Lodsys contact by phone and received via email, but without success, an answer on whether Apple has called each one of the patents granted, and the accuracy of the claim against the developers of applications.
A number of developers, including Thompson, and applications for the legal management of Apple, on the basis that they built their own applications using the Apple Developer Tools.
Apple IOS Agreement provides that paid applications developers responsible, "states that all applications are approved and / or end user to purchase or use of applications such as license violates copyright or other intellectual property and others. "
But since Apple is likely to demand Lodsys fight, because that would be seen instability in the store, which is essential to maintain the attractiveness of the iPhone is the lead.
The decision comes a disquieting for developers and follows a similar deposit at the end of March another Texas company, the father of the technology, which upheld a patent on the "Internet telephony with the ability to search and advertising."
Analysis Florian Mueller, who is about development on smartphones and claims of innocence and claimed that the father Technical and said concern "is really about this issue is that in the first lawsuit of its kind for the attack - along with operating system vendors are responsible, as usually claimed by the patent holders - number of companies actually fear smartphone applications and are now more complaints against the patent for the application developers hope to change that at all young people not to fight, but can do so. It was a great company behind the application, or if the application is commercially very successful, pass it, and now seems to have happened. "
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