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Lodsys, LLC is a patent trolling company located in Marshall, Texas that brings patent infringement lawsuits against a variety of companies in the US.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Patent/Lodsys/ )〕 Numerous app development enterprises have accused them of "patent trolling", referring to the fact that they have sued many developers over their usage of Lodsys' patents.〔 〕 On May 13, 2011, it was reported that they had demanded that a number of iOS application developers obtain licenses from them.〔 Apple has written to Lodsys stating that Apple's licenses protect its app developers.〔 Article originally from Business Insider.〕 However, Lodsys has decided to press on with their lawsuit and has sent a detailed legal response to Apple.〔(Eric Slivka, "Lodysys Responds to Apple: Files Lawsuits Against App Developers", MacRumors blog, March 31, 2011 )〕 According to the company website, Lodsys states that it is not a corporate subsidiary of patent holding company Intellectual Ventures, contrary to speculation from media sources.〔http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-what-is-dan-abelows-involvement-is-intellectual-ventures-behind-lodsys-or-controlling-lodsys-in-some-way.html〕〔http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack〕 ==Patents== Lodsys owns four patents, all of which list Daniel H. Abelow as the inventor. The patents are related to interacting with customers over the internet in relationship to products and services. This includes things like online help, customer support, tutorials, on-line upgrades, surveys, etc.〔("Our Patents" ) on Lodsys web site〕 The patents are: * (The "908" patent) "Customer-based product design module" * (The "834" patent) "Product Value Information Interchange Server" * (The "078" patent) "Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network" * (The "565" patent) "Customer-based product design module" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lodsys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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