Apple files motion to intervene in Lodsys patent lawsuit

Apple’s already made its position in the main Lodsys situation pretty clear, and it’s now taken things one step further after the patent holder hit iOS developers with a lawsuit on the end of last month. As noted by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, Apple has filed a motion to intervene within the case, and he says Apple is “fairly likely” to be admitted as an intervener in response to precedent. Within the case that occurs, Apple has also concurrently filed its answer to the complaint and its counterclaim, which unsurprisingly line up with its earlier position at the matter: that Apple has already licensed the patents in question at the developers’ behalf, and they are “entitled to make use of this technology free from any infringement claims by Lodsys.” Hit the source link below for the entire filing, at the side of FOSS Patents’ analysis of it.