http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-troll-lodsys-chickens-out-folds-case-rather-than-face-kaspersky-lab/ Lodsys, the notorious patent troll that feeds by bleeding small app developers, has folded its cards rather than go to court…
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Jeff Roberts
Oct 2, 2013 - 2:14 PM PST
Lodsys, the controversial “patent troll” that has sued everyone from the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) to Angry Birds, recently set its sights…
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Jeff Roberts
Nov 4, 2011 - 5:37 PM PST
A college sophomore sued by a shell company that’s in the business of patent litigation has folded his cards, saying he can’t afford to hold…
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Jeff Roberts
Oct 12, 2011 - 7:33 PM PST
We haven’t heard much lately about the Lodsys case against Apple, Android and RIM developers around the world, who have received letters and…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 11, 2011 - 8:28 AM PST
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) settle their patent dispute; two more companies…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jun 14, 2011 - 4:24 AM PST
Everyone was probably hoping that the situation with Lodsys asking app developers for royalty payments on its patents would somehow get diff…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jun 10, 2011 - 7:44 AM PST
An American commercial patent research company says it plans to seek out “prior art” to invalidate a patent being used by MacroSolve to sue…
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Charles Arthur, MediaGuardian
Jun 3, 2011 - 10:35 AM PST
Patent-holding company Lodsys has jumped the gun on its own timeline for litigation against app developers-apparently in an attempt to order…
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Joe Mullin
May 31, 2011 - 7:06 PM PST
Everyone’s favorite mobile applications patent troll is making sure to cast an equal-opportunity pall across software developers. After forc…
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Tom Krazit
May 27, 2011 - 6:05 PM PST
We are still waiting to hear what Lodsys’ response will be to Apple’s letter to the company, in which it requests that the patent owner with…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 23, 2011 - 6:13 PM PST
Apple’s iOS platform would not be the overwhelming success it currently is without the efforts of a small army of application developers lar…
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Tom Krazit
May 21, 2011 - 6:00 AM PST
Lodsys, the patent holding company going after iOS developers, is little more than a “patent troll” according to the EFF. But Apple takes a nearly equal share of the blame for the situation in a new blog post by the Foundation posted Friday.
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Darrell Etherington
May 20, 2011 - 1:32 PM PST
“One week down, two weeks remaining. And for some people, only one week remaining,” tweeted James Thomson, an iOS developer. That could be r…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 20, 2011 - 9:41 AM PST
Lodsys, the company that has made legal threats against a number of independent iOS developers around their implementation of payments servi…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 16, 2011 - 6:31 PM PST