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  1. Google Submits Response to EC Antitrust Regulators

    After the conclusion of the FTC investigation, Google voluntarily made changes to some of its practices, including how it handles search and patent issues and agreeing not to sue willing licensees over standard essential patents.

  2. Google as Your Identity Provider: Where Are We Now?

    One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. So now what? Those who follow me, read me, or conference with me, already know what these five letters mean...

  3. Google Buys Coupon Platform Incentive Targeting, Which Owns Targeted Search Patent

    Interestingly, the company was granted a patent for a “Computer-implemented method and system for conducting a search of electronically stored information,” in July this year. The patent describes an “interactive targeting rule editor,” which...

  4. Google Spent $14.3 Million on U.S. Lobbying in 2012

    The search giant spent its funds lobbying the U.S.government on patent, antitrust, and telecommunications issues. Google spent more on U.S.lobbying efforts than any other technology firm in America, according to statistics from the Center for...

  5. Snoopy: The DuckDuckGo Logo for Charles M. Schulz’s Birthday

    At least Google isn’t enforcing it’s Google Doodle patent on the small search engine – at least not yet. Snoopy is hanging out with a bird of a different feather today. Rather than his traditional playmate, Woodstock, Snoopy appears with Dax, the...

  6. Google Warns of Upcoming Exact Match Domain Algorithm Change

    Bill Slawski wrote an excellent post on a patent for a method of detecting commercial queries, secured by Google in October 2011. The patent application describes the exact match domain problem: a company may attempt to “trick” the search engine...

  7. Failure to Comply: Judge Orders Google to Reveal Paid Media Relationships

    District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. Google has been given clarification and a deadline of Friday to...

  8. Google Seeks Ban on iPhone, iPad in Patent Lawsuit

    Google's Motorola Mobility division has filed a patent infringement claim against Apple over the Siri voice control and location-based services used on iPhones and iPads. We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple's unwillingness to...