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Litigation

Oct. 30, 2014

Google secures patent sanction award

Personalweb Technologies LLC owes Google Inc. $123,934.09 after a federal judge confirmed sanctions on Friday against the Texas-based company for destroying potentially relevant evidence to the litigants' patent infringement case.

By Kevin Lee
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Personalweb Technologies LLC owes Google Inc. $123,934.09 after a federal judge confirmed sanctions on Friday against the Texas-based company for destroying potentially relevant evidence to the litigants' patent infringement case.

U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose declined to overturn or adjust the sanction handed down by Magistrate Judge Howard R. Lloyd in August. Lloyd had found that a Personalweb employee had ...

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