From a recent application shows that Apple patent wants to get on a technique for the purchases of products within an application. The company Lodsys has been here for patents and used these to developers to complain.
With the patent wants Apple developers that use its in-app purchasing system is likely to be better protect against lawsuits from Lodsys, who in recent months came in the news by developers licentiegeld to requirements for the use of a button within an iOS application for in-app purchases. The patent application was already in april last year submitted, but is only now made public. Apple had already licensed the patents from Lodsys for in-app purchases.
Apple’s patent describes a technique whereby users are within an app, a product from another source can purchase without the need to leave. In addition, the user must the idea be given that the software itself, the offered product sells. According to Toms Hardware, that the patents of Apple and Lodsys has is compared, is the idea in Apple’s patent is more specifically defined than that of Lodsys. It is likely that Apple with the patent Lodsys offside.
Lodsys came the past months regularly in the news by software developers licentiegeld to requirements for the inclusion of a button for in-app purchases within an application. There were also some developers have been sued. Apple tried to have iOS developers to defend by stating that the license that the company from Cupertino has on the two Lodsys patents also apply to iOS developers. This, argues Apple, follows from the fact that the developers make use of tools provided by the iOS-maker has been made available to their software. Apple has an api available that allows applicatiemakers an in-app purchase button in their software to be able to bake.