Lodsys Sues Developers Ahead Of The Deadline It Gave Developers To Pay Up
from the while-the-getting's-good dept
This really isn't much of a surprise, but the new posterboy for the problems of a patent system gone mad, Lodsys, apparently isn't taking its recent tongue-lashing from Apple all that seriously. Instead, it's just ramped up its campaign to sue software publishers -- even though it filed these lawsuits before the time on its demand letter had ticked off the clock. The reason, of course, was so Lodsys could get the lawsuits going in East Texas and its notoriously patent-holder friendly court system. Of course, this is also pretty obnoxious. Why give someone a deadline at all if you're going to sue them before the deadline?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: in-app payments, mobile, patents
Companies: apple, google, lodsys
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Thousands of patent lawsuits will be invalidated and football will truly become an international sport. (Yes, I know Canada has their own football thing, but wasn't that just started to give Doug Flutie somewhere to play until he got bigger?)
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The court should just set a date and ding them for not appearing up two weeks early. Let them learn about ignoring their own arbitrary deadlines.
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Deadline change.
I don't see how this couldn't go against them.
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Perfectly Simple Fix
The quality of patents is now so pitiful that they do not deserve to be the basis of a government-granted monopoly privilege. Take it away. It was never a good idea to grant such monopoly privileges in the first place. Monopolies damage the economy, remember?
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See they are innovative.
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what law says they have to keep or even set a 'deadline' ???
It has nothing to do with the legalities of the case, its not like a bill that has a deadline, after which you default on the payment.
They are going to court for patent and IP issues, not on defaulting on a bill payment.
Again, Mike you appear to totally miss the point.
Where is the law that says you have to provide the other company with a deadline, or have to keep to that deadline ?
oh thats right, there is NOT ONE...
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you can't blame them
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