Saturday, August 27, 2011

Re: [android-developers] Re: Just received Lodsys letter...

They want 0.575% of your gross, past, present and future.

On 8/27/2011 6:58 PM, Andy wrote:
> Question would be as "super small developer" whats the easiest Exit
> Strategy.
>
> A Patent Lawer in the US easily costs serveral hundert $/hour. Their
> strategy might be that this effort is too big for most of us.
> (Especially from Europe / laguage barrier) So after reading
> http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-what-are-you-charging.html i
> was thinking if the easiest way to sleep better ist, ask them what you
> have to paid for the past and future use.
>
> In case you removed the Button it would be the question how to the
> know how many apps you have sold in the US. If you sold you app like
> 500 times for 2 $ this might be a very small amount of money you have
> to spend. The Question remains it this is legit because their claim
> that even a link to the Market violates one of their patents is kind
> of odd, because than you can claim that exact case for every website
> linking to a Commercial Item like Amazon links oder whatsover. Same
> Mechanism. The Button in you game is only a HTTP Link to a Android
> Market website. No Strings attached.
>
> Next question qould be hwo to contact them, and how fast do they respond.
>
> Anybody experienced a solution that was heading for a licening ?
>
>
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