Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Jury Convicts Former Google Engineer of Economic Espionage concerning AI

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The U.S. Department of Justice has announced in a press release the conviction of a former Google software engineer of economic espionage co...
Wednesday, 6 March 2024

US DOJ Announces Indictment of Former Google Employee and PRC National for AI Trade Secret Theft

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US Department of Justice announced the indictment of former Google employee for stealing AI related trade secrets.  The press release state...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023

US DOJ Sues Google for Anticompetitive Conduct in Advertising Practices

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The U.S. Department of Justice has brought a competition suit against Google concerning its internet advertising practices.   The DOJ press ...
Friday, 15 April 2022

Google: Investing in Education . . .

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Google recently released some interesting information concerning its economic impact in the United States.  It is very impressive.  Google r...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Anti-Troll LOT Network Expands to 500 members

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The Anti-Troll (or Troll protection) LOT Network has expanded to 500 members.  I first wrote about the Google started LOT Network in 2015, a...
Friday, 15 November 2019

US Supreme Court will hear Google v. Oracle Copyright Suit

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The United States Supreme Court has just granted review of the Google v. Oracle Copyright law suit.  This is a huge case concerning copyrigh...
Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Going After FAANG in the United States: States Attorneys General Begin Investigation into Google

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An interesting question is when do you regulate a new technology.  Do you regulate it early, potentially impeding its development?  Or, do y...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Reinvigorating Competition Law in the United States: A Path Forward?

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In late 2018, Professor Timothy Wu at Columbia University Law School published a short, readable and nicely priced book at about 140 pag...
Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Google's Competitors Take a Swipe at Google's "Academic Influence Campaign"

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The Campaign for Accountability (CA) has released a report on Google's "influence" on academic papers.  Notably, The Chronicle...

Newspapers Fight Back Against Facebook and Google for Stronger IP Protection

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In most intellectual property law courses and many property courses in the U.S., the INS v. AP case is taught.   In that case, the U.S....
Friday, 28 April 2017

"Opportunistic" Google and Intertrust Launch "Patent Shield": Protection for Startups

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Google and Intertrust have announced the creation of Patent Shield, which is designed to protect startups.   Essentially, the exchange i...
Wednesday, 12 April 2017

UB3: Uber's New Patent Purchase Program

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Uber has launched a patent purchase program called, “UB3.”   The program sounds very similar to the one founded by Google and run by A...
Thursday, 6 April 2017

Preparation for (more) Patent Assertion Entites in Europe: Intellectual Property 2 Innovate

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As reported by Florian Mueller on the FOSS Patents Blog on April 5, a relatively new organization has been formed to raise awareness of a...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

IP3—The Industry Patent Purchase Program: Google and Friends Want to Buy Your Patents (Maybe, Again)

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This blog recently covered Google’s Patent Purchase Program, here and here .   Google basically offered to consider purchasing submitted pat...
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Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Google's License on Transfer Network: A Good Way to Avoid Patent Trolls?

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Google, along with a number of other companies, started the License On Transfer (LOT) Network on July 9, 2014.   The general purpose of t...
Thursday, 30 April 2015

Patent Trolls Have a New Competitor: Google’s Patent Purchase Promotion Program

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In an apparent effort to “clear up the secondary market for patents,” Google has launched its Patent Purchase Promotion Program.   Google ...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Motorola Mobility: Has there been an impairment of goodwill in Google's acquisition of its patent portfolio?

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When companies face a decline in the value of a certain asset, they may find it necessary to write down the goodwill value of that asset t...
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Friday, 20 May 2011

Google buys up Modu's Patents

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Modu was a small Israeli telecommunications company which attempted an IPO on the Tel Aviv stock exchange (see report here ) but collapsed ...
Thursday, 3 February 2011

Latest on the Nortel bidding war

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The deadline for submitting bids for the Nortel patent portfolio is clearly drawing near and "informed" leaks are appearing. Presu...