Oh, you fax-machine-manufacturer apologists and fanboys can deny it, but the evidence is in offices across the globe. They just. Don't. Care. Which is probably how this patent ended up in the hands of a firm specializing in patent trolling.

Of course, the Macalope's not a patent attorney, nor does he play one on TV (not since his comedy sketch show on CourtTV got canceled)—and there are other patents involved. But the only connection between the patent and in-app purchases he could see was "A user communicates something back to a vendor from inside the software." This is why the brown and furry one was surprised that, according to Lodsys (who, by the way, is put out by how rude people are being to them, because who could see that coming?) . Technically, that may be true; the patent used to belong to a company that licenses bundles of patents, with which Apple does have a relationship. But Apple may not even know it licensed the patent in question.

The folks in Cupertino are apparently , so stay tuned for more exciting patent-related legal developments, intellectual-property porn aficionados!

As if the wasn't bad enough, now Mac users have to deal with another infestation. Yes, according to the Macalope's research over the last week, Mac users are seeing a shocking rise in the number of straw-man attacks against them.