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Google Successfully Defends $600 Million Patent Lawsuit Brought by Company with No Programming Expertise

By admin | Published: February 25, 2010
I don’t usually write about Patent law issues, but this story from The Prior Art is fascinating, and is certainly relevant to copyright and trademark. Essentially, Google successfully defended a patent infringement lawsuit brought by a “patent holding company” or “patent troll,” which is a company that does nothing but file patents. Once the patents [...]
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Google’s Numerous Legal Battles

By admin | Published: February 19, 2010
Google’s legal battles both in and out of the courtroom are becoming more ubiquitous. First, the new legal challenge. ABC News is reporting that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Google over it’s controversial policy of (1) having your closest contacts automatically follow you on Google Buzz and then (2) publishing those contacts [...]
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Foreign Authors and the Google Book Settlement

By admin | Published: December 28, 2009
One of the many complexities in the Google Book Search Amended Settlement Agreement is the legality of Google’s digitization efforts abroad. As Robert Darnton reported in the New York Review of Books, there has been considerable resistance to the settlement agreement on the part of foreign governments. France and Germany both submitted memorandums to Judge [...]
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