{"id":380,"date":"2011-07-06T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:51:16","slug":"app-developers-beware-patent-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/07\/app-developers-beware-patent-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"App Developers Beware Patent Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just developing&#8230; read this great post from an IP lawyer\/activist, Florian Mueller. To quote his article:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOSS Patents<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lodsys situation is getting out of control, and I think each affected app developer should now look for an exit strategy. In this blog post I describe the way I would go about. After an update on the Lodsys situation, I&#8217;ll outline the short version of my suggested course of action. Thereafter, I go into detail on its various parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iOS and Android (and cross-platform) app developers receive letters and phone calls, take down apps and remove features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About two months ago, Lodsys started <a href=\"http:\/\/fosspatents.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/what-will-apple-do-second-patent-attack.html\">sending out patent assertion letters<\/a> to iOS app developers. More than one month ago, Lodsys <a href=\"http:\/\/fosspatents.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/lodsys-sues-7-app-developers-in-eastern.html\">sued seven app developers<\/a> in Texas &#8212; mostly over iOS apps but also one Android app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/fosspatents.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/cost-efficient-way-for-app-developers.html<\/p>\n<p>And he links to the EFF&#8217;s site to a post in 2010 about Apple&#8217;s program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>UPDATED: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/03\/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Ban on Public Statements<\/li>\n<li>App Store Only<\/li>\n<li>Ban on Reverse Engineering<\/li>\n<li>No Tinkering with Any Apple Products<\/li>\n<li>Kill Your App Any Time<\/li>\n<li>We Never Owe You More than Fifty Bucks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just developing&#8230; read this great post from an IP lawyer\/activist, Florian Mueller. To quote his article: FOSS Patents The Lodsys situation is getting out of control, and I think each affected app developer should now look for an exit strategy. In this blog post I describe the way I would go about. After an update &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/07\/app-developers-beware-patent-trolls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;App Developers Beware Patent Trolls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-legal","category-mobile","category-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-68","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}