"Google" tagged Cases and Lawsuits
| Case | Case Filed | Last Document |
|---|---|---|
| Specht et al v. Google Inc et al | April 28, 2009 | July 2, 2009 |
| The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc. | September 20, 2005 | July 2, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs The Author's Guide. Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman sued Google Inc. for reproducing a digital copy of plaintiffs' works without the copyright holders' permission and in violation of the authors' rights under the copyright laws. | ||
| Perfect 10 Inc v. Google Inc et al | November 19, 2004 | July 2, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Perfect 10 sued defendant Google Inc. for displaying thumbnails of photographs copyrighted by the plaintiff. Consolidated with Perfect 10 Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc. et al. Additional Resources Ninth Circuit Opinion in Perfect 10 v. Google and Amazon. | ||
| Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. Softlayer Technologies, Inc. et al | June 16, 2009 | July 1, 2009 |
| Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et al | September 27, 2007 | July 1, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Performance Pricing, Inc. sued Google Inc., AOL LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,978,253 entitled "Systems and Methods for Transacting Business Over a Global Communications Network such as the Internet." | ||
| Aloft Media, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. et al | December 30, 2008 | June 30, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc., Google, Inc. and AOL LLC infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,472,351 entitled "Mobile E-Mail Manager Interface with Integrated Instant Messaging and Phone Call Initiator Feature." | ||
| Aloft Media, LLC v. Google, Inc. | November 19, 2008 | June 30, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,194,691 entitled "Network Browser Window with Adjacent Identifier Selector Interface for Storing Web Content." | ||
| Actus, LLC v. Bank of America Corp. et al | April 9, 2009 | June 29, 2009 |
| PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | November 2, 2007 | June 29, 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." | ||
| ASCENTIVE, LLC v. GOOGLE, INC. | June 25, 2009 | June 26, 2009 |
| Google Inc. v. Traffic Information LLC | June 9, 2009 | June 26, 2009 |
| Northeastern University et al v. Google, Inc., | November 6, 2007 | June 26, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs Northwestern University and Jarg Corporation allege that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,694,593 entitled "Distributed Computer Database System and Method." | ||
| Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google, Inc. et al | July 3, 2007 | June 26, 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. | ||
| Vulcan Golf, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | June 15, 2007 | June 25, 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. | ||
| Klausner Technologies Inc v. Verizon Wireless et al | August 26, 2008 | June 24, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Klausner Technologies, Inc. alleged that Defendants infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 5,572,576 and 5,283,818 entitled "Telephone Answering Device Linking Displayed Data with Recorded Audio Message." | ||
| Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | November 21, 2007 | June 24, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Software Rights Archive, LLC alleges that Defendants Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., AOL LLC and Lycos, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,544,352 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data." | ||
| Soaring Helmet Corporation v. Bill Me Inc et al | June 9, 2009 | June 17, 2009 |
| Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | August 27, 2007 | June 16, 2009 |
| Polaris IP, LLC sued Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., A9.com, Inc., Borders, Inc., Borders Group Inc., AOL LLC, America Online, Inc., IAC/InteractiveCorp., and IAC Search and Media, Inc. for patent infringement involving U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947 entitled "Automatic Message Interpretation and Routing System." Plaintiff alleges that defendants are infringing on the patent by implementing various websites that comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines. | ||
| Viacom International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al | March 13, 2007 | June 12, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs Viacom International Inc., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Black Entertainment Television LLC alleged that Defendants YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC and Google Inc. infringed Plaintiffs' copyrights. | ||
| Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC v. Google, Inc. et al | February 12, 2008 | June 11, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC alleges that Defendants Google, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,043,450 entitled "Paid Search Engine Bid Management." | ||
| Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al | February 11, 2009 | June 10, 2009 |
| The Football Association Premier League Limited et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al | May 4, 2007 | June 10, 2009 |
| Plaintiff filed a class action law suit against YouTube and Google for allowing users to upload and distribute media that infringed on plaintiff's copyrights. | ||
| Smith v. The Abandoned Vessel | March 6, 2007 | June 10, 2009 |
| Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. Careerbuilder, LLC et al | June 1, 2009 | June 5, 2009 |
| GraphOn Corporation v. Google Inc. | August 13, 2008 | June 5, 2009 |
| Plaintiff GraphOn Corporation alleged that Defendant Google Inc. infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538 and 6,850,940 entitled "Automated On-Line Information Services and Directory, Particularly for the World Wide Web," and U.S. Patent Nos. 7,028,034 and 7,269,591 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Providing a Dynamically-Updating Pay-For-Service Web Site." | ||
| Google, Inc. v. EMSAT Advanced Geo-Location Technology, LLC et al | May 29, 2009 | June 4, 2009 |
| Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. et al v. Google, Inc. | July 31, 2008 | June 2, 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." | ||
| Cygnus Systems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, et al | December 23, 2008 | May 29, 2009 |
| Goodard v. Google, Inc. | May 30, 2008 | May 29, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Jenna Goddard alleged that she was injured when she provided her cell phone number to an allegedly fraudulent mobile subscription services website and was charged for unwanted mobile content services in the form of premium text messages. Plaintiff alleged that the fradulent subscription services website she was was a Google AdWords advertiser and absent Google's provision of AdWords services to the Fraudulent Mobile Subscription Services, Plaintiff would never have been damaged. | ||
| Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al | July 1, 2008 | May 28, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs Google Inc., AOL LLC, Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc. and Lycos, Inc. seek a declaratory judgment that they have not infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 5,544,352, 5,832,494 and 6,233,571 (Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data), that such patents are invalid, and that Defendants L. Daniel Egger, Software Rights Archive, LLC and Site Technologies, Inc. do not own the patents. | ||
| John Beck Amazing Profits, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | May 14, 2009 | May 26, 2009 |
| Levitte v. Google Inc. | July 11, 2008 | May 18, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Hall K. Levitte sued Defendant Google, Inc. in regards to the Google AdWords program. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant had damaged plaintiff and the class by improperly charging them for advertising placed by Google on low-quality domain and error page websites. | ||
| HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. GOOGLE INC. | April 12, 2006 | May 13, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs HyperPhrase Technologies LLC and HyperPhrase Inc. alleged that Defendant Google Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,434,567 entitled "Method for Specifying Enterprise-wide Database Address Formats," No. 6,507,837 entitled "Tiered and Content Based Database Searching," No. 6,516,321 entitled "Method for Database Address Specification," and No. 5,903,889 entitled "System and Method for Translating, Collecting and Archiving Patient Records for Automated Data Storage and Retrieval." | ||
| CLRB Hanson Industries, LLC et al v. Google Inc. | September 12, 2005 | May 12, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs claim that defendant Google Inc. misled AdWords advertisers by allowing advertising charges to exceed daily budgets that advertisers set for their ad campaigns. | ||
| IP Innovation LLC et al v. Google, Inc. | November 16, 2007 | May 4, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp. alleges that defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patents No. 5,276,785 entitled "Moving Viewpoint With Respect to a Target in a Three Dimensional Workspace" and No. 5,675,819 entitled "Document Information Retrieval Using Global Word Co-Occurrence Patterns." | ||
| Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | January 20, 2009 | April 29, 2009 |
| TradeComet.Com LLC v. Google, Inc. | February 17, 2009 | April 28, 2009 |
| Bid for Position, LLC v. AOL, LLC et al | December 13, 2007 | April 27, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Bid for Position, LLC alleges that Defendants AOL, LLC, Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and MIVA, INc. infringed on Patent No. 7,225,151 entitled "Online Auction Bid Management System and Method." | ||
| Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | October 20, 2008 | April 24, 2009 |
| Ligeri v. Youtube, Inc. et al | August 14, 2008 | April 14, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Benjamin Ligeri sued Defendants YouTube Inc., YouTube LLC, Google Inc. and various YouTube and Google employees and agents and alleged that Defendants had not compensated him for the traffic generated by videos Plaintiff had uploaded to YouTube. | ||
| Priest et al v Google Inc. | December 11, 2008 | April 13, 2009 |
| Search Warrant Google Gmail electronic mail account eriknownet@gmail.com | March 12, 2009 | April 7, 2009 |
| Almeida v. Google, Inc. | April 22, 2008 | April 2, 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. | ||
| Cobb v. Google, Inc. et al | February 13, 2008 | March 4, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Jonathan Cobb sued Defendants Google, Inc. and WorkforceLogic USA. Plaintiff alleges that Google had misappropriated the Google Sky concept and idea, which Plaintiff had presented, advanced and refined through an internal e-mail discussion group. | ||
| JIT Packing. Inc v. Google, Inc. | October 10, 2008 | February 28, 2009 |
| Kubit v. Google Groups and All Other Websites, et al | September 29, 2008 | February 20, 2009 |
| Plaintiff alleged that Defendant Nico Samara posted false and malicious statements that Plaintiff had HIV and that Defendant Google Inc. failed to remove such defamatory statements from Google Groups. | ||
| Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google Inc. | August 14, 2008 | February 20, 2009 |
| Silvers v. Google, Inc. | May 4, 2005 | February 10, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Steven A. Silvers alleged that defendant Google, Inc. infringed on plaintiff's GOOGLES mark, and sought to enjoin Google from using the GOOGLE mark in connection with the advertising, promoting, marketing and sale of children's goods and services. | ||
| Limitnone LLC v. Google Inc. | July 23, 2008 | February 6, 2009 |
| Plaintiff LimitNone, LLC alleged that Defendant Google Inc. violated the Illinois Trade Secrets Act and Illinois Consumer Fraud & Deceptive Business Practices Act. Plaintiff charged that Defendant improperly accessed and copied Plaintiff's gMove email migration software and then created and released a competing software product called Google Email Uploader. | ||
| Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | June 20, 2008 | December 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Viacom International, Inc., et al. sought to compel production of documents by non-party Respondents Artis Capital Management L.P., Sequoia Capital Operations LLC and TriplePoint Capital LLC. | ||
| Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google Inc. | August 14, 2008 | October 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. | ||
| Jones v. Wackenhut % Google Inc. | March 12, 2007 | October 20, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Donald Jones alleges that defendant Wackenhut employed him as a security guard and assigned him to defendant Google Inc.'s facilities. He further alleges that his employer retaliated against him because he had previously filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC. He charges that defendant Wackenhut had deducted from his payroll check and had suspended him because a Google representative allegedly observed him sleeping on the job. | ||
| v. Google, Inc. | August 8, 2008 | October 10, 2008 |
| Movant Eric M. Albritton subpoenaed Google, Inc. seeking documents referring or relating to communications regarding Eric M. Albritton, ESN, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., and certain postings on www.trolltracker.blogspot.com. | ||
| SOFTWARE RIGHTS ARCHIVE, LLC v. GOOGLE, INC. | September 19, 2008 | September 22, 2008 |
| Google Inc. v. Netlist, Inc. | August 29, 2008 | September 4, 2008 |
| Grisoft,s.r.o. v. Google, Inc. | December 13, 2007 | August 22, 2008 |
| Movant John Doe seeks an order quashing the subpoena directed to Google, Inc. at the request of Grisoft, S.R.O., which seeks the identity of Movant. Movant alleges that Grisoft is attempting to misuse the subpoena process pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. | ||
| Calcar Inc. et al v. The California Cars Initiative, Inc. et al | April 18, 2008 | August 15, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Calcar, Inc. filed a trademark infringement claim against Defendant The California Cars Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to the development of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. Plaintiff has served Google with two subpoenas even though Google is not a party to the case and its only connection to either party is a philanthropic grant by Google.org to the Defendant. | ||
| Illinois Computer Research, LLC v. Google Inc. | September 10, 2007 | August 15, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Illinois Computer Research, LLC alleges that defendant Google Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,111,252 entitled "Enhancing Touch and Feel on the Internet." | ||
| JIT Packaging Inc v. Google, Inc. | August 11, 2008 | August 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. | ||
| Lemay v. Microsoft Software Company et al | July 25, 2008 | August 8, 2008 |
| MCKINNEY v. HERALD NEWS et al | July 18, 2008 | July 31, 2008 |
| Stragent, LLC v. Nokia Inc. et al | July 29, 2008 | July 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Stragent, LLC alleged that Defendants Nokia, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Palm, Inc., Research in Motion, Ltd., Research in Motion Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sony Ericcson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., American Online, Inc., AOL LLC, AT&T, Inc., Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo!, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,665,722 entitled "Store-and-forward packet radio system and method." | ||
| Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | July 9, 2008 | July 25, 2008 |
| Mark Mishak v. Google, Inc. et al | December 20, 2007 | July 18, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Mark Mishak d/b/a INEEDATV.com alleges that Defendants have sold keywords identical to Plaintiff's trademarks--"I Need a TV"--to various third parties and have deliberately manipulated the search engine results so that when consumers use these search engines to find Plaintiff's products and services, the consumers are unwittingly diverted to competitors' products and services. | ||
| American Airlines Inc v. Google Inc | August 16, 2007 | July 17, 2008 |
| American Airlines is suing Google for allowing companies to show ads when its trademarks, including (but not limited to) "AMERICAN AIRLINES" "AMERICAN EAGLE" "AA" "A A" "AA.COM" "AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER" "AADVANTAGE" "AMERICAN CONNECTION" "AMERICANAIRLINES" are searched on. | ||
| International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium v. Degraphenreed et al | November 16, 2007 | July 16, 2008 |
| Plaintiff International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium sued Defendants Miko Degraphenreed, Degrapheinread Information Systems Security Corporation, Google, Incorporated and Yahoo!, Incorporated for trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin, dilution, and deceptive trade practice, misappropriation and unjust enrichment. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants infringed and violated (ISC2)'s rights to its long-standing and valuable registered mark CISSP®. | ||
| NetJumper Sofware L. L. C. v. Google, Incorporated | February 2, 2004 | July 15, 2008 |
| Plaintiff NetJumper, L.L.C. sued defendant Google, Inc. for patent infringement and alleged that Google Toolbar and Google Viewer infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,890,172 and U.S. Patent No. 6,226,655, both entitled "Method and Apparatus for Retrieving Data from a Network Using Linked Location Identifiers." Defendant Google counterclaimed for trademark infringement. | ||
| Visto Corporation v. Research in Motion Limited | March 10, 2008 | April 8, 2008 |
| F & G Research, Inc v. Google, Inc | November 29, 2007 | March 6, 2008 |
| Plaintiff F & G Research, Inc. alleges that Defendant Google Inc. infringed U.S. Patent No. 5,313,229 entitled "Mouse and Method for Concurrent Cursor Position and Scrolling Control." | ||
| F & G Research, Inc. v. Google, Inc. | June 22, 2006 | March 6, 2008 |
| Plaintiff F & G Research, Inc. sued Google, Inc. for patent infringement over U.S. Patent No. 5,313,229 entitled "Mouse and Method for Concurrent Cursor Position and Scrolling Control." | ||
| Feldman v. Google, Inc. | May 3, 2007 | February 28, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Lawrence Feldman purchased advertising from Defendant Google, Inc. based on keywords such as Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex. Plaintiff alleged that he was a victim of click fraud and that 20–30% of all clicks for which he was charged was fraudulent. | ||
| Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. AOL, LLC. et al | December 20, 2007 | February 11, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Beneficial Innovations, Inc. alleges that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,712,702 entitled "Method and System for Playing Games on a Network" and 6,183,336 entitled "Network Gaming System." | ||
| iLOR, LLC v. Google, Inc. | April 17, 2007 | February 7, 2008 |
| Plaintiff iLOR, LLC alleges that Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,206,839 entitled "Method for Adding a User Selected Function to a Hyperlink." | ||
| Connor Sport Court International, Inc., v. Google Inc. | October 31, 2007 | November 14, 2007 |
| Movant Connor Sport Court International, Inc. seeks to compel Respondent Google, Inc. to comply with a subpoena duces tecum relating to third party use of the term "Sport Court" as an adword and Rhino Sports, Inc.'s use of the Sport Court mark and other terms as adwords. | ||
| Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation v. YouTube, Inc. | October 30, 2006 | November 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation operates a website at utube.com. Plaintiff alleges that as a result of confusion in the minds of consumers, the spillover of nuisance traffic to plaintiff's website has destroyed the value of plaintiff's trademark and internet property, repeatedly caused the shut down of plaintiff's website, increased plaintiff's internet costs and damaged the plaintiff's good reputation. | ||
| Antor Media Corporation v. Metacafe, Inc. | March 27, 2007 | November 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Antor Media Corporation alleged that MetaCafe, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,734,961 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Information Recorded on Information Storage Means from a Central Server to Subscribers via a High Data Rate Digital Telecommunications Network." | ||
| Jayne v. Google Internet Search Engine Founders | September 18, 2007 | September 27, 2007 |
| Plaintiff sued the founders of the Google internet search engine and alleged that his social security number when turned upside down is a scrambled code that spells the name Google. | ||
| Gogo Tribe v. Google Corp Clerk shall not accept complaints or petitions from Denis Maringo until sanction is paid and he presents written permission from a judicial officer in SDTX Houston, per order #4. | September 18, 2007 | September 26, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Denis Marengo is an immigration detainee at the CCA Houston Processing Center who states that he is being detained for political reasons and is barred from proceeding pro se. Nevertheless, he proceeds in a representative capacity on behalf of the Gogo and Yao tribes of Tanzania and alleges that Google and Yahoo misappropriated their names, respectively, without acknowledgment or compensation. Plaintiff asserts that he has standing to sue on the tribes' behalf because the mother of his paternal grandfather (a/k/a great-grandmother) was Gogo and the grandmother of his maternal grandmother (a/k/a great-great-grandmother) was Yao. | ||
| Leo Stoller vs. Google Inc | January 8, 2007 | September 26, 2007 |
| Leo Stoller appealed three orders issued by the Bankruptcy Court: an order denying a motion to dismiss, another order denying a motion to stay, and an order denying a motion for leave to object to the claims. | ||
| Person v. Google Inc. | November 27, 2006 | September 19, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Carl E. Person contends that defendant Google, Inc.'s quality score analysis prevents him from purchasing keyword targeted internet advertising at the advertised minimum cost-per-click prices and discriminates against him and other small business users who are not high volume advertisers. Related case: Person v. Google, Inc. from the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York. | ||
| CNG Financial Corporation v. Google Inc | January 24, 2006 | September 7, 2007 |
| Plaintiff CNG Financial Corporation sued Defendant Google, Inc. over Google's practice of allowing third parties to purchase online advertisements that appear when a user searches for "Check 'N Go" on Google's website. Plaintiff owns the service mark "Check 'N Go." | ||
| Google Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. | November 26, 2003 | September 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. seeks declaratory judgment that its policy regarding the sale of keyword-triggering advertising does not constitute trademark infringement. | ||
| Google Inc v. Central Mfg. Inc. et al | January 19, 2007 | August 13, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. alleges that Defendants have falsely represented that they own a federal registration for the GOOGLE mark, that they are owners of common law rights in the GOOGLE mark and that they have the right to license the GOOGLE mark to third parties. | ||
| RSA ENTERPRISES et al v. RIP-OFF REPORT.COM et al | April 23, 2007 | August 7, 2007 |
| Plaintiff, a building contractor, sued Ripoff Report for posting an an allegedly defamatory and libelous statement on its website from an unsatisfied customer. Plaintiff also sued Google for add the web page to its directory. | ||
| Kinderstart.Com, LLC v. Google, Inc. | March 17, 2006 | August 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. | ||
| Phillips v. Google Inc | July 11, 2007 | July 18, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Gene E. Phillips sued Google for libel over links provided by the search engine to third-party websites, including the Dallas Business Journal and www.americanmafia.com, which had allegedly published false, misleading, disparaging and damaging statements about Philips and his former company Basic Capital Management, Inc. | ||
| Cal IV Entertainment, LLC v. Youtube, Inc. et al | June 7, 2007 | July 10, 2007 |
| Plaintiff, a music publishing company, alleges that Defendants infringed its copyrights by allowing users to upload videos containing plaintiff's copyrighted works and providing access to certain content filtering technologies only to existing business partners. | ||
| Google Inc. v. Wolfe | April 8, 2005 | July 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google, Inc. alleges that defendant Richard Wolfe infringed on its trademark by registering the domain name froogles.com and hosting a internet shopping guide at that site, which competes with Google's web search services. | ||
| Mizera v. Google | July 15, 2005 | June 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, 2005 | June 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. | ||
| Elwell v. Google, Inc. et al | July 18, 2005 | June 18, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Christina Elwell served as defendant Google's National Sales Director and reported to defendant Timothy Armstrong. Plaintiff alleges that because of medical problems associated her pregnancy that limited her ability to travel, defendants demoted her to an operations position. Plaintiff further alleges that she was constructively discharged when she refused to accept the operations position after returning from her maternity leave. | ||
| Skyline Software Systems, Inc. v. Keyhole, Inc et al | June 5, 2006 | June 11, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Skyline Software Systems, Inc. sued defendant Keyhole, Inc. for patent infringement. Plaintiff alleges that Google Earth and other products provided by defendants infringe on U.S. Patent No. 6,496,189 entitled "Remote landscape display and pilot training." | ||
| Google Inc. v. Compression Labs Inc et al | September 17, 2004 | June 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. filed a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment that U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 entitled "Coding system for reducing redundancy" owned by defendants Compression Labs, Inc., Forgent Networks, Inc. and General Instruments Corporation is invalid. Defendants have alleged that their patent covers the international standard adopted by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) for compression, decompression, transmission and storage of digital still images. | ||
| Langdon v. Google Inc. et al | May 17, 2006 | June 1, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Christopher Langdon complains that defendants Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. declined to accept advertising from plaintiff for his websites www.ncjusticefraud.com and www.chinaisevil.com. | ||
| Grisman et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | May 10, 2007 | May 25, 2007 |
| Plaintiffs, owners of Dawg Music, allege that Defendants infringed on plaintiff's protected works and refused to deter infringing activities. | ||
| NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY v. YOUTUBE, INC. et al | May 22, 2007 | May 24, 2007 |
| Plaintiff New Jersey Turnpike Authority captured a car accident on video that occurred at the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza in Somers Point, New Jersey. Plaintiff asserts that the video is the copyright property of the NJTA and has filed an application with the US Copyright Office to obtain federally registered copyrights for the accident video. This video was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.com, LiveLeak.com and Break.com. | ||
| LASSOFF v. GOOGLE, INC. | August 10, 2006 | May 17, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Samuel Lassoff sued defendants Google, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc. and IAC Interactive Corporation for fraud, breach of contract, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair business practices. Plaintiff Samuel Lassoff alleges that defendants engaged in a scheme to hide its negligent handling of plaintiff's advertising account and never warned plaintiffs of fraudulent clicks or made any recovery efforts for the plaintiffs. | ||
| Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. v. Earthlink Legal Department | April 12, 2007 | April 17, 2007 |
| Fulbright & Jaworski LLP issued a subpoena seeking the identity of the individual or individuals who posted copyrighted questions from the July 2006 Multistate Bar Examination on www.tabandbrandy.blogspot.com. | ||
| AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE v. GOOGLE INC. | March 17, 2005 | April 6, 2007 |
| Plaintiff alleges that Google's aggregation of AFP's photographs, headlines and story leads in Google News infringes on Plaintiff's copyrights. | ||
| FELDMAN v. GOOGLE, INC. | June 14, 2006 | April 3, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Lawrence Feldman d/b/a Lawrence Feldman & Associates alleges that he contracted with Google to purchase advertisements on the Internet, and that Google breached the contract and violated other laws by overcharging him for those ads. | ||
| IN RE: YouTube, Inc. | March 20, 2007 | March 20, 2007 |
| Lucia Eams sought a subpoena to discover the identity of the person who had uploaded unauthorized copies of works to YouTube that infringed her copyrights. | ||
| Bradley v. Google, Inc. et al | August 28, 2006 | February 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. | ||
| v. YouTube, Inc. | January 18, 2007 | February 14, 2007 |
| Rescuecom Corporation v. Google, Inc. | September 7, 2004 | February 13, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Rescuecom Corporation alleges that defendant Google, Inc. improperly infringes on plaintiff's name and trademark by selling the trademark to plaintiff's competitors as a keyword in defendant's search results. | ||
| Silvers v. Google, Inc. | October 10, 2006 | January 8, 2007 |
| Lindsay Miller sought to quash the subpoena served on her by Stelor Productions, Inc. | ||
| The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. et al v. Google Inc. | October 19, 2005 | November 22, 2006 |
| Plaintiffs allege that the Google Library Project infringes on plaintiffs' copyrights by copying copyright-protected works and allowing the public to search and access digital copies of plaintiffs' works. | ||
| The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc | October 20, 2006 | October 23, 2006 |
| Amazon.com, Inc. objects to Google, Inc.'s subpoena which sought documents relating to the Amazon Book Project. | ||
| Person v. Google, Inc. | June 19, 2006 | October 11, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Carl E. Person contends that defendant Google, Inc.'s quality score analysis prevents him from purchasing keyword targeted internet advertising at the advertised minimum cost-per-click prices and discriminates against him and other small business users who are not high volume advertisers. Related case: Person v. Google, Inc. from the U.S. District Court-Northern District of California. | ||
| Google Inc v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. | August 22, 2006 | August 22, 2006 |
| Jews for Jesus v. Google, Inc. | December 21, 2005 | July 27, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Jews for Jesus sued defendant Google, Inc. for creating a jewsforjesus third-level sub-domain within its blogspot.com domain. Plaintiff alleges the the Google-hosted Jews for Jesus blog authored by an anonymous third-party violated plaintiff's rights to the Jews for Jesus trademark. | ||
| AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY v. GOOGLE, INC. | December 9, 2004 | July 5, 2006 |
| Plaintiff American Chemical Society alleges that defendant Google, Inc.'s a new research tool directed to scientists under the trademark SCHOLAR infringes on plaintiff's federally registered trademark SCIFINDER SCHOLAR and its common-law SCHOLAR mark. | ||
| Toback v. Google, Inc. | May 30, 2006 | June 21, 2006 |
| Plaintiff seeks to compel defendant Google, Inc. to remove links and advertising on its website that provide access to child pornography. | ||
| Digital Envoy Inc., v. Google Inc., | April 16, 2004 | April 27, 2006 |
| Rates Technology Inc. v. Google Inc. | October 5, 2005 | April 6, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Rates Technology Inc. alleges that defendant Google Inc.'s Google Talk VoIP services infringe on U.S. Patent No. 5,425,085 entitled "Least cost routing device for separate connection into phone line" related to minimizing the cost of placing long distance telephone calls. | ||
| Gonzales v. Google Inc. | January 18, 2006 | March 17, 2006 |
| U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales subpoenaed Google, Inc. to compile and produce a massive amount of information from Google's search index, and to turn over a significant number of search engine queries entered by Google users. | ||
| American Airlines, Inc. v. Google, Inc. | February 24, 2006 | March 1, 2006 |
| Blake A. Field VS Google, Inc., | April 6, 2004 | February 22, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Blake A. Field sued defendant Google, Inc. for copyright infringement. Plaintiff posted his copyrighted works on his website and completed an online form to request that Google index his website. Plaintiff now asserts that allowing users to view Google's cache of his copyrighted works infringes on his copyrights. | ||
| Google, Inc. v. Affinity Engines, Inc. | February 9, 2005 | January 20, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. alleges that defendant Affinity Engines Inc. infringed on plaintiff's copyrights by using software code owned by Google that implements social networking functionalities and was written by Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee. | ||
| Google, Inc. et al v. Microsoft Corporation | July 29, 2005 | December 27, 2005 |
| Plaintiffs Google Inc. and Kai-Fu Lee sought judicial relief from a non-compete provision drafted by Dr. Lee's former employer, Microsoft Corporation. | ||
| Government Employees, et al v. Google, Inc., et al | May 4, 2004 | August 8, 2005 |
| Plaintiff GEICO sued defendant Google, Inc. claiming that defendant violated the Lanham Act and engaged in unfair competition by using GEICO's trademarks to sell advertising on its Internet search engine. | ||
| Brown v. Google, Inc. et al | April 29, 2005 | August 3, 2005 |
| Plaintiff Robert A. Brown sued Google, Inc., Payrolling.com and Marissa Mayer in state court. Plaintiff alleged that he understood from his interview that he would receive full benefits and increased pay once his probationary period ended. Google filed a notice of removal to federal court and contended that ERISA preempted some of plaintiff's causes of action. | ||
| Ideaflood, Inc. v. Google, Inc. | October 4, 2004 | March 21, 2005 |
| Plaintiff Ideaflood, Inc. sued defendant Google, Inc. and alleged that Google's blogging service infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,687,746 B1 entitled "System apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names on a wide area network." Plaintiff alleged that the patent covers a service for hosting domains and assigning domain names to users, were the domain name is defined, in part, by the user. | ||
| Novak v. Overture Services, Inc. et al | September 24, 2002 | March 18, 2005 |
| Plaintiff Robert Novak d/b/a Pets Warehouse sued defendants Kanoodle, Google and Overture and alleged that they permitted plaintiff's competitors to purchase advertising based on the Pets Warehouse trademark. Plaintiff further alleges that defendants TheFerretStore.com, Judge-For-Yourself.com and DoctorDog.com had either used plaintiff's trademark in its metatags or had purchased the keyword Pets Warehouse. | ||
| Google Inc. v. Skyline Software Systems Inc. | November 18, 2004 | January 3, 2005 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. filed a declaratory judgment action against defendant Skyline Software Systems, Inc. regarding defendant's U.S. Patent No. 6,496,189 entitled "Remote landscape display and pilot training." Defendant had previously sued Keyhole, Inc., a company acquired by plaintiff, for patent infringement regarding the same patent. | ||
| Overture Services, Inc. v. Google Inc. | April 23, 2002 | August 9, 2004 |
| Plaintiff Overture Services Inc. alleged that defendant Google Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,269,361 entitled "System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine." | ||
| Digital Envoy, Inc. v. Google, Inc. | March 29, 2004 | June 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. | ||
| Koprowski v. Google Inc | October 14, 2003 | January 5, 2004 |
| Plaintiff Gene Koprowski sought a subpoena to determine the identity of the person who authored a blog post. Plaintiff alleged that the blog published an article that was copyrighted by him and infringed on his trademark. | ||
| Search King Inc v. Google Inc, et al | October 17, 2002 | May 27, 2003 |
| Plaintiff Search King, Inc. sued defendant Google Technology, Inc. for reducing the PageRank to plaintiff's website. | ||
| Intermec Technologies Corp. v. Palm, Inc. | May 8, 2009 | |
| Parallel Networks, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al | April 6, 2009 | |
| Ezzo v. Google, Inc. et al | March 17, 2009 | |
| Limitnone LLC v. Google Inc. | January 29, 2009 | |
| Desenberg v. Google, Inc. | November 21, 2008 | |
| Barboza et al v. Fox-32 WFLD-TV et al | November 14, 2008 | |
| Global Law, LLP v. Google, Inc. | November 12, 2008 | |
| 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. | ||
| Letterese et al v. Church of Scientology International, Inc. et al | July 15, 2008 | |
| BORING et al v. GOOGLE INC. | May 21, 2008 | |
| Plater v. Google, Inc. | April 22, 2008 | |
| Riches v. Crocker et al | December 13, 2007 | |
| Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. YouTube, Inc. | August 29, 2007 | |
| 1-800 Contacts v. Lens.com Inc. et al | August 13, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff 1-800 Contacts, Inc. alleges that Defendant Lens.com, Inc. d/b/a Lens.com, JustLens.com and JustLenses.com had purchased sponsored advertisements from Google and other search engines for Plaintiff's marks. | ||
| Tur v. YouTube Inc | July 14, 2006 | |
| Tur v. YouTube SJ Motions Denied. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. | ||
| Paramount Pictures Corporation v. YouTube, Inc. | May 4, 2006 | |
| HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC vs. GOOGLE INC. | April 12, 2006 | |
| News America Incorporated v. Google, Inc. | August 4, 2005 | |
| JTH Tax, Inc. v. Google, Inc., et al | April 4, 2005 | |
| BARTLETT v. GOOGLE, INC, et al | December 7, 2004 | |
| Chisholm, et al v. Blogspot, et al | October 29, 2004 | |
| American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, Inc. v. Google, Inc. et al | January 27, 2004 | |
| Re/Max International v. Google Inc., et al | July 27, 2001 | |
| Xtraplus Corporation v. Google, Inc. | May 18, 2001 | |
| Xtraplus Corporation v. Google Inc | May 15, 2001 | |
| Overture Services v. Google Inc | April 4, 2002 | |