Developers ask Apple for help against patent troll via bug reports

Developers ask Apple for help against patent troll via bug reports
iOS developers are organizing a boycott of Apple’s in-app purchasing APIs in the hopes that it will goad Apple into responding to the lawsuits against developers using those APIs. More than a dozen independent developers have received letters notifying them that use of in-app purchases violates a US patent held by (apparent) patent troll Lodsys. Those developers don’t have the resources to …