"Adsense" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et alNovember 2, 2007November 6, 2009
Plaintiff PA Advisors, LLC allege that Defendants infringed no U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067 entitled "System and Method for Generating Personalized User Profiles and for Utilizing the Generated User Profiles to Perform Adaptive Internet Searches."
Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google, Inc. et alJuly 3, 2007November 6, 2009
Plaintiff alleges that Google's AdSense and AdWords technologies, Google Print Ads, and Yahoo's Publisher and Content Match technologies infringe on its patents.
Almeida v. Google, Inc.April 22, 2008October 16, 2009
Plaintiff David Almeida alleges that Defendant Google Inc. failed to disclose that leaving the content ad CPC input blank would subject Plaintiff to charges for content ads on third party websites.
Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. et al v. Google, Inc.July 31, 2008September 29, 2009
Plaintiffs Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. and Daniel Wexler alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,960,409 entitled "Third-Party On-Line Accounting System and Method Therefor."
Vulcan Golf, LLC v. Google Inc. et alJune 15, 2007July 30, 2009
Plaintiff sued Google and several "parked domain" companies for trademark infringement over the use of AdSense for Domains on websites with allegedly infringing domain names.
Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google Inc.August 14, 2008October 31, 2008
Plaintiff Pulaski & Middleman, LLC that Defendant Google Inc. breached its contract with advertisers by placing ads on AdSense for Domains and AdSense for Errors sites, as well as low-quality, illegal sites or sites that violated Google's terms of service.
JIT Packaging Inc v. Google, Inc.August 11, 2008August 12, 2008
Plaintiff JIT Packaging Inc. alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. concealed the fact that many of its AdWords advertisements appeared on low quality parked/non-content sites and error pages.
Kinderstart.Com, LLC v. Google, Inc.March 17, 2006August 3, 2007
Plaintiff KinderStart.com LLC alleges that defendant Google, Inc. blocked plaintiff's website from the Google search engine and caused a drop in plaintiff's traffic and AdSense revenues.
Mizera v. GoogleJuly 15, 2005June 26, 2007
Plaintiff alleges that defendant Google Inc. has failed to take any significant measures to track or prevent click fraud, to adequately warn its customers about the existence of click fraud, to adequately advise customers that they have been victimized by click fraud, and to refund customers the excess charges that they have incurred as a result of the click fraud.
Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. v. Google, Inc.June 24, 2005June 26, 2007
Plaintiff alleges that defendant Google Inc. has failed to take any significant measures to track or prevent click fraud, to adequately warn its customers about the existence of click fraud, to adequately advise customers that they have been victimized by click fraud, and to refund customers the excess charges that they have incurred as a result of the click fraud.
Bradley v. Google, Inc. et alAugust 28, 2006February 15, 2007
Plaintiff Theresa B. Bradley signed her website www.bravacorp.com up for Google AdSense. Google terminated her AdSense account 9 days later after she clicked on some third-party ads that appeared on her website. Plaintiff sued defendant Google Inc. over its failure to pay her the approximately five dollars in revenue that the ads on her site had generated.
Digital Envoy, Inc. v. Google, Inc.March 29, 2004June 7, 2004
Plaintiff Digital Envoy, Inc. alleges that it entered into a Product and Electronic Database Evaluation and License Agreement with defendant Google, Inc. under which the defendant licensed plaintiff's IP technology to obtain the geographic location of visitors to its website. However, plaintiff contends that the use of its IP technology in the Google AdSense program falls outside the scope of its agreement.
RK West, Inc. v. Google, Inc.July 17, 2008 
Plaintiff RK West, Inc. d/b/a Malibu Sales brings a class action on behalf of all persons or entities located within the United States who created an AdWords campaign an were subsequently charged for clicks for ads placed on parked domains. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Google, Inc. does not disclose the web addresses of the parked domains where Plaintiff's ads were placed, clicked on and subsequently charged for. Plaintiff also alleges that parked domains are a constant source of invalid clicks and that advertisers have no way to distinguish between valid and invalid clicks from parked domains.