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Mike Lee, the newly minted “mayor” of Appsterdam, made an important announcement yesterday:  The Appsterdam Movement is forming and funding a legal defense collation (“The Appsterdam Legal Defense Fund”) to help indie devs fight the Patent Troll Menace(1). Of course we applaud them and think the fact they have an actual IP pro onboard is a [...]

This article is a little different from our Patent Mess Scorecard, rather then detailing who’s getting sued, here we’re going to try to detail what these patent trolls are claiming to control with these patents… Note: we’re not lawyers, and of course nothing we say here should be construed as either legal advise or a [...]

It’s a little scarce on details but Jonathan Freeman of Widgetpress has announced “Widget Press has been dismissed without prejudice of MacroSolve’s claims against the 816 patent.”   Congrats to Jonathan, it’s great news for the moment, but as he mentions in the blog entry, they could add him back into their lawsuit plans at [...]

[Update 12-July] Lodsys has just upped the ante again, now claiming that beyond in-app purchases, even cross-selling and/or cross-promoting in an app is a volition of their patents.   This story first broke yesterday on TouchArcade’s Dev Forum, where iFighter 1945 developer EpicForce reported receiving an infringement letter from Lodsys, and when EpicForce asked for [...]