Google announced last week the launch of a new feature that allows its users to plan for what happens to their accounts when they die or can no longer use their account.  The feature, called Interactive Account Manager, allows users to set a “timeout period” of inactivity.  Google will send an alert one month before [...]

Google’s latest revolutionary invention, Google Glass, is set to hit the market starting this week.  The part-smartphone, part-mini-computer device looks like a pair of sunglasses, with a small glass box in the upper right-hand corner that will display information to a user without obstructing his line of vision.  Google Glass’s wearable technology and patented design displays information [...]

Auto IES, a car company in France, brought a suit against Google Inc., Google France and Google Ireland, claiming that Google contributed to the infringement of its trademarks.  Allegedly, if a consumer uses the terms “ies”, “auto ies”, “autoies” or “auto-ies” as keywords in a Google search, sponsored listings would appear on the right side [...]

The world’s largest maker of cell phones, Samsung Electronics, was recently banned from selling its Galaxy Nexus smart phones, which is a direct competitor with the iPhone.  Apple Inc. sued Samsung alleging that the Galaxy infringes on at least two of Apple’s patents.  But now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has weighed [...]

Reuters interviewed Judge Posner following his dismissal of the Apple and Motorola patents case involving Google’s Motorola Mobility device. In the interview, Judge Posner expressed his skepticism of the patent system because it tends to disfavor consumers. According to the judge, this is a result of the “proliferation” of patents in technological devices and their [...]

In the latest development in the Authors Guild v. Google litigation, Judge Denny Chin, sitting by designation, denied Google’s motion to dismiss the copyright infringement claims against it in the Southern District of New York, and granted the Authors Guild’s motion for class certification. The Authors Guild originated its suit in 2005, alleging that Google [...]

While SOPA and SOPA 2.0 have been getting all the attention, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is still very much alive, and the Second Circuit recently handed down an important decision interpreting the statute. Unfortunately for YouTube, which had been granted summary judgment, the decision revives the litigation, and the decision has been called a [...]

Google is making major changes to its privacy policy but should we be worried? The jist of the change is that Google will consolidate all the data they capture through their products and services into one profile associated with your account. So this means better information equals better services, right? Of course, it’s Google after [...]

Some of the biggest names in the art and copyright community are getting involved in the ongoing battle over the legality of appropriation art. Earlier this month Google, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and The Association of Art Museum Directors each submitted amicus curiae briefs to the Cariou v. Prince appeal in the Second Circuit (for [...]

The digital music movement is about to pick up another heavyweight player as Google prepares to launch its MP3 store. Google will be competing with Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s mp3 store. The entrance of Google into the digital music market space will certainly stir things up. Thus far, iTunes has led the revolution in the [...]