Intellectual Property
Jan. 31, 2014
Judge awards patent holding company big royalty from Google
A federal judge in Virginia has awarded Vringo Inc. a 1.35 percent running royalty on Google Inc.'s AdWords program in a decision that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the New York-based patent holding company.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A federal judge in Virginia has awarded Vringo Inc. a 1.35 percent running royalty on Google Inc.'s AdWords program in a decision that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the New York-based patent holding company.
The royalty would allow Vringo to collect a sliver of Google's massive advertising revenues until Vringo's two patents expire in April 2016. Google earned about $12 bi...
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