And Fraser Speirs, a Scottish developer who has written apps for the Mac and iOS, remarked that he was "starting to get seriously concerned about my future as a software developer due to these patent issues".

Meawhile Kootol Software of Mumbai announced that it has sent a notice to Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Research in Motion, LinkedIn, MySpace, Research in Motion and a number of other companies - including Iconfactory - claiming that they infringe US patent application 11/995,343 - "A Method and System for Communication, Advertising, Searching, Sharing and Dynamically Providing a Journal Feed" - which it said has also been applied for in India, Canada and Europe.