Do I need to pay for a patent for swipe in an app?

Question

Law in IT

Own link https://www.axios.com/tinder-patent-swipe-left-rig...
Tinder patented the swipe and double match. If I want to use one or both of these possibilities in my application. Do I need to take care of buying the rights to use a patent in advance?
How much of a problem can this be when distributing an app to a US audience?

Answer 1

For starters, read the description of the patented technology, its formula, try to figure out how you will and whether you will implement it in your application ... will it be used here, based on this it will be possible to talk about violations, and about payment ... Pay attention to awesomer 's answer , he made the right remark to you.
And ask specific questions that will describe directly the use of a particular technology, and without this, any answer to your question will be useless for you. The use of any patented technologies (if they are not dual or military technologies) is not an obstacle to the distribution of the application in the US market, but may cause the subsequent emergence of various legal and financial risks...

Answer 2

swipes process the OS libraries and pass them to the application as a command, and not as a swipe.

Answer 3

If you do "another dating epp" that uses these mechanisms and then become wildly popular, you're bound to get sued. But will you reach these peaks?