Lodsys is alleging infringement against some developers because they don’t have a license to use the Lodsys patent.
Apple has a license to use the Lodsys patent.
Solution: Sell your app to Apple for $1...
Then you lease it back from them (a perpetual, worldwide, royalty free, etc. license). Buy-leasebacks are common for all other kinds of capital. No obvious reason it couldn't be the same for this IP.
In the license terms, you just leaseback the IP you want to keep (i.e. all of it), while Apple is the new owner of record.
Can you find any problems that can't be solved in the legalese of the buyback agreement?
(I apologise for the earlier mispost of this same thread. It should have been in “Ask HN:”)
