Lodsys dismisses lawsuit against app maker TMSoft
Developer Todd Moore of TMSoft on Thursday announced that Lodsys has dismissed its patent-infringement lawsuit against his company.
Lodsys, you’ll recall, has filed numerous such lawsuits against app makers, alleging that it holds patents that cover in-app purchasing and cross-app promotion—and that any app that attempt either approach must license Lodsys’s patents.
Apple licenses Lodsys’s patents and maintains that doing so covers third-party iOS developers; Lodsys disagrees. The patent-holding company has sued developers large and small, including The Walt Disney Company, TLA Systems (makers of PCalc), Gameloft, Gamevil, Jirbo, MobileAge, and, indeed TMSoft.
TMSoft makes a slew of white-noise generation apps for iOS. (Disclosure: My wife and I maintained sanity during our three children’s respective infancies in large part due to TMSoft’s White Noise Baby app.)
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