This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Intellectual Property

Apr. 11, 2012

Google suffers setback in AdWords legal battle

In a legal setback for Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising program, an appellate court panel on Monday vacated part of the Mountain View-based company's 2010 defeat of a trademark infringement complaint by language learning products maker Rosetta Stone Inc.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

In a legal setback for Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising program, an appellate court panel on Monday vacated part of the Mountain View-based company's 2010 defeat of a trademark infringement complaint by language learning products maker Rosetta Stone Inc.

The ruling, which sends the case back to a Virginia district court, again raises the question of whether Google's practice of selling trademarks for paid advertisements ...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up