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Mere weeks before the WWDC, Apple is still quiet on the Lodsys situation, leaving developers unsure of what to do in the patent trolling case. The silence is truly deafening. EFF sums up many of our thoughts on this:
Apple clearly needs to take a stand on this one way or another. Even just a public statement saying, “we are working on this and will have an answer before the 30 days to respond to Lodsys time is up” would suffice.
What’s different here, however, is that Apple provides this functionality to its developers and requires that they use it. Apple itself is protected from liability – Apple took a license from Lodsys’ predecessor to use this very patent (which was likely part of a larger blanket license). And the apparently one-sided Apple-developer agreement does not require that Apple indemnify developers from suits based on technology that Apple provides.
Via Daring Fireball
- Lodsys: We’re not patent trolls, here’s why we’re entitled to royalties over in-app purchasing (9to5mac.com)
- Three down, one to go. Apple stikes deal with Sony for Cloud streaming (9to5mac.com)
- Samsung ups the ante, sues Apple in the US for violating 10 patents related to mobile phones (9to5mac.com)
- Intel: We have ‘full rights’ to the Thunderbolt trademark, not Apple (9to5mac.com)
- Sidekick Woz tells Sidekick Allen to stop being a patent troll (9to5mac.com)
- Mounting evidence suggests next iPod nano will have a camera, screensavers (9to5mac.com)
