Thank you for responding ko5tik. I think you are right. The people who open these patents won't care unless your app is doing well because they just want the money.
I disagree somewhat with Dmitri. I think developers need to be aware that many features that they might put in their application can have imposing law suits that might come against them for some "Patent infringement". That is something they need to be aware of. Maybe a separate thread or something because I have done some research on the web and there are MANY out there and a lot of them are really stupid. Like holding a patent on caller lookup?! That can effect SO many applications. So as a developer I am going to try (emphasis on try) and develop my application so it's robust enough that I can add/remove features if I need to. 1th hit and you had to cease and desist? That sucks. Truly. Sorry to hear that. -Chris On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:35 AM, ko5tik <kpriblo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It depends heavily on laws of your place of residence > and importance of your application. Most probably nobody will > ever notice. However, I managed to get attention of lawyers > representing > nice delaware company holding right of tetris because of my applet > game > (used to be 1th hit in google ) - but no lawsuit, just cease and > desist letter. > > On Feb 27, 10:11 pm, chris harper <ch393...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I read this article and it concerns me. It's about patent > > infringements for the caller ID within android applications. > > > > http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0244468285.shtml > > > > I am writing an application for android which uses the > > PhoneStateListener and following the example outlined in this article: > http://almondmendoza.com/2009/01/30/getting-the-contact-info-when-on-... > > > > Have you guys at Google experienced developers being sued for using > > this feature (besides the one in the article of course). > > > > Should I be concerned here if I used this feature in my application? > > > > Thank you > > -Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
