Apple Tries To Patent 3rd Party In-App Purchasing

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Apple has spared no effort in trying to injure its arch mobile rival through the courts, like blocking Android vendors from important markets (http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/apple-legal-victory-court-blocks-samsung-tablet-in-europe-update/12219) through patent and trademark infringement suits. Now it's developing an additional angle: an attempt to patent in-application purchases from third parties (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110246290%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110246290&RS=DN/20110246290), as an application filed on April 26, 2010 and made public on Thursday (http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/apple-looks-to-burn-google-with-3rd-party-in-app-purchase-patent/13169) made clear.

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