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<title>Lodsys adds Disney, others to lawsuits over in-app purchases</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/03/apples.intervention.efforts.unknown/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1365010467_wheresmywater.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Patent holder Lodsys had added Disney to the list of companies it is pursuing with lawsuits over in-app purchases, reports say.  In a new court filing, Where's My Water? and other unspecified Disney apps are said to violate Lodsys' '565 and '078 US patents.  "Prior to filing this complaint, Lodsys informed Disney of the patents-in-suit and offered to enter into a licensing arrangement that would a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lodsys in-app purchase patent validated by USPTO</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/09/google.filing.forced.uspto.analysis.of.patent/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/Apple-Lawsuits%26Legal-new-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The otherwise-stagnant Lodsys lawsuit has shown signs of life after six months of inactivity. According to a blog post on the Lodsys website, during the inter-parties reexamination requested by Google, the United States Patent Trade Office has confirmed the non-practicing entity's patent as valid after on in-app purchases and free-to-paid application upgrades....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court allows Apple to defend developers in Lodsys suit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/12/new.judge.agrees.to.limited.intervention/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1108/gavel-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Courts have finally allowed Apple to involve itself in an ongoing lawsuit filed by Lodsys against a number of app developers. Apple in June filed a motion to intervene, however the request was met by opposition from Lodsys and further stalled as the case was swapped to Judge Rodney Gilstrap....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple files patent for in-app purchasing</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/ipad2-appstore2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is hoping to corner the app market with a USPTO patent filing published Thursday.  A submission for "In Application Purchasing"  appears to cover the basics of what most app stores use today, letting users buy content from within an app from an outside content store as though it were from within the app.  Some variants can put up an overlay to bring up the purchase, and the app itself could ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lodsys starts targeting BlackBerry developers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/09/01/lodsys.aims.at.blackberry.devs.after.ios.android/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/blackberryappworld3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Lodsys has widened the scope of its patent trolling to include BlackBerry developers, new accounts revealed late Wednesday.  At least Lonely Turret developer Rotten Ogre has been targeted for selling apps in the US with in-app purchases.  It hasn't been sued but has faced Lodsys' common strategy, where it offers a licensing deal knowing that the developer can't afford to challenge the legitimacy o...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lodsys reply to Apple uses poor evidence, may defeat case</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/29/lodsys.sur.reply.to.apple.faces.poor.prospects/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/ipad2-appstore2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Lodsys showed potential strain in its lawsuit after it issued a sur-reply to Apple's own response. Originally submitted earlier in the month but just discovered Monday, the response makes the questionable claim that Apple can't motion because some of the app developers sued challenge the validity of the patents.  Similarly, it contends that the license it has with Apple doesn't make it a licensor ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google finally defends developers against Lodsys lawsuit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/13/google.asks.uspto.to.invalidate.lodsys.patents/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/android-kyocera.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has at last taken steps to try and protect Android developers from the wide-ranging Lodsys lawsuit, the company's general counsel Kent Walker stated Saturday.  The company has asked the USPTO to reexamine the validity of two patents for in-app purchases that "should never have been issued," according to Walker.  The approach described to Wired would either narrow the scope of the complaints...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Atari, EA, others ask court to allow Apple's help vs. Lodsys</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/11/apple.has.necessary.information.defendants.say/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/news/1107/Apple-Lawsuits%26Legal-new-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Four major parties defending themselves against Lodsys' legal accusations are actively petitioning the court to accept Apple's intervention request.  Game publishers Atari, Electronic Arts and Square-Enix were joined by Quickoffice in sending a letter to the court yesterday, urging it to grant Apple's motion.  All four companies are being represented in the matter by the same lawfirm, Gibson, Dunn...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legal precedent vs. carpet-bomb patent suits may hurt Lodsys</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/10/eon.net.loss.may.hurt.lodsys.too/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/gavel-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A recent decision in a patent lawsuit from Eon-Net against Flagstar Bancorp might pose trouble for Lodsys in its own attempts to skim royalties.  Discovered today, a ruling late last month hit Eon-Net with Rule 11 sanctions for conducting what was cast as "extortion" through its practices.  The company had submitted over 100 infringement lawsuits but each time gave the targets a settlement that wo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple still pushing to intervene in Lodsys case</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/ipad2-appstore2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple on Monday countered Lodsys' resistance to intervention with a final argument of its own.  A call for a court hearing argued multiple points, focusing most on the importance of the patent license covering in-app purchases.  It argued that the license itself was enough interest to require an intervention and that it had a clear business motivation to get involved: developers were considering b...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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