Google Lawsuits Dismissed

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Google Lawsuits Dismissed

By: Navneet Kaushal
2006-12-28

Google has won another case, even without fighting it, against a Madison based company, HyperPhrase Technologies LLC.

HyperPhrase Technologies LLC and its subsidiary, HyperPhrase Inc, had filed a lawsuit against Google citing that Google's AdSense and AutoLink products violate the company's patents.

U.S. District Judge John Shabaz dismissed the lawsuit in a 25 page ruling. The judge said that:

"AutoLink performs a completely different function in a different way to achieve a different result."

The judge also put aside the AdSense lawsuit as "nonsense." He said that:

"The product involves connecting two records which the AdSense statistically predicts hold a common interest for the reader. It has nothing whatever to do with a reference in one record to a second record."

BusinessWeek reports that a similar lawsuit filed by HyperPhrase was dismissed in 2003. The lawsuit claimed that Microsoft Corp.'s Office XP suite of business software infringed on its patents. That suit had sought $2 billion in damages.

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Nav is the founder and CEO of PageTraffic, a premier search engine company known for its assured SEO service, web design and development, copywriting and full time SEO professionals.

Navneet has wide experience in natural search engine optimization, internet marketing and PPC campaigns. He is a prolific writer and his articles can be found in the "Best Articles" section of many websites and article banks. As a search engine analyst , he has over 9 years of experience and his knowledge is in application here.


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