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Developer coalition aims to ward off Lodsys, others

Amid the mounting pile of patent infringement cases targeting mobile application developers, one group has laid out plans to fight back by pooling resources with others.

Mike Lee, the co-founder of Tapulous, former Apple employee, and founder of Amsterdam-based development initiative Appsterdam today revealed plans to mount a defense against Lodsys and other patent holders as part of an effort he's calling "Operation Anthill." In short, it involves pooling resources to hire a technology attorney, provide money to back legal defenses in patent-related cases, and draft intellectual property legislation that would help protect developers. As it stands, … Read more

Google agrees to send Schmidt to Capitol Hill

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before a U.S. Senate hearing on antitrust that could be held as soon as this month.

The agreement, which Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Google confirmed this afternoon, caps a few weeks of public wrangling over who the company would provide to be grilled at a public event that's unlikely to be sympathetic to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.

In late June, a U.S. Senate panel probing antitrust and Internet search topics publicly threatened to subpoena Schmidt or Google CEO Larry Page. Google had been reluctant to provide either … Read more