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To: zax who wrote (4759)	5/23/2011 4:56:35 PM
From: iggyl	Respond to of 32692

Apple should step up and indemnify their developers, just as EFF asked. It was their mistake to require developers to use an API without licensing the technology for those developers. You mean like Google and WebM or Google and HTC? We'll see how this plays out. At least Apple has stepped into the legal fray. One thing we know for sure is Google has dodged all responsibility.

To: zax who wrote (4759)	5/23/2011 5:53:00 PM
From: iggyl	Respond to of 32692

Try this one zax Through its threatened infringement claims against users of Apple's licensed technology, Lodsys is invoking patent law to control the post-sale use of these licensed products and methods. Because Lodsys's threats are based on the purchase or use of Apple products and services licensed under the Agreement, and because those Apple products and services, under the reading articulated in your letters, entirely or substantially embody each of Lodsys's patents, Lodsys's threatened claims are barred by the doctrines of patent exhaustion and first sale. As the Supreme Court has made clear, "[t]he authorized sale of an article that substantially embodies a patent exhausts the patent holder's rights and prevents the patent holder from invoking patent law to control postsale use of the article." Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008). engadget.com So what about Google? Who's back have they got zax?