On Wednesday, July 6, 2011 12:44:27 PM UTC+1, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote:
Developers should not take legal advice from the Internet, and > especially not from a non-attorney blog or a software development > podcast. > I agree wholeheartedly. I wasn't trying to give advice either, just chiming in as an interested party (I believe all devs are interested parties here). > ------------------ > > Some sort of legal defense fund and pooled defense would seem like an > excellent idea, but somebody with standing on this issue would need to > talk to qualified legal counsel about whether this works in this case, > what are the options for funding it, etc. Some sort of "Kick Lodsys > Where It Counts" Kickstarter campaign might be fun. :-) > Might indeed. Interesting reading on that vein here: http://iptarget.blogspot.com/2011/05/troll-blasting-strategy.html On Wednesday, July 6, 2011 2:04:11 PM UTC+1, Spooky wrote: PS: I just barely missed being a part of this, too, having just > decided not to go with ads/"donation to remove ads" for my app. > So I definitely do feel for you all. > Just FYI, you may not have missed the fun. The whole point of patent trolling is "an intentional misconstruing of the claims in an attempt to extort money from another" (from the IPTarget blog). The troll doesn't care that you're not infringing his patent, he just wants to scare you into paying up. String > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
