Apple filed a legal brief on Monday insisting it has every right to intervene in Lodsys' attempts to sue iOS developers for using in-app purchasing. The filing is a formal response to the patent firm's claims that Apple has no legal standing to intervene Lodsys' patent infringement suit against various independent iOS developers. Apple originally filed to intervene in the lawsuit after its chief legal counsel unsuccessfully tried to explain that its license for the patents in question covers developers using in-app purchasing APIs in iOS.
Lodsys began threatening both iOS and Android developers with lawsuits in May if the developers didn't pay licensing fees for its claimed in-app-purchasing-related patents. Many independent developers lack the financial and legal resources to litigate a patent infringement claim, so a number of iOS developers began a campaign to get Apple to help, threatening a boycott of in-app purchasing if only to avoid such legal threats.
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