<story><title>Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/judge-tosses-apple-motion-allows-patent-troll-lodsys-to-continue-rampage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chetanahuja</author><text>The texas east district stuff is fascinating. What if the app and software developers start licensing their apps with a license and technical measures explicitly excluding East Texas (or the entire state of texas, for extra safety) from the operation of the app.&lt;p&gt;It could be enforced by some soft of geofencing at app startup that splashes a &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re from East Texas, our app doesn&amp;#x27;t work there&amp;quot; type language. Will that affect the ability of the trolls to venue shop at least (if not to bring the suite in the first place).&lt;p&gt;Of course an even better response would be if smartphone vendors disable their entire OS&amp;#x27;s in that district. That might be fun.</text></comment>
<story><title>Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/judge-tosses-apple-motion-allows-patent-troll-lodsys-to-continue-rampage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Apple should hire a nation wide law firm to defend any and all apple developers who are sued by Lodsys fore these patents. Instruct the lawfirm to never settle and actively file actions on beheld of each client against Lodsys. It&amp;#x27;s simple, once they realize that no one will settle with them, they will go away.&lt;p&gt;Now, where on earth is that patent troll bill congress has been promising?</text></comment>