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Litigation

Sep. 3, 2015

Lawsuit claims Google subsidiary infringed PhantomAlert copyright

GPS navigation company PhantomAlert Inc. filed a copyright lawsuit Monday against Waze Inc., alleging that the popular mobile phone map application, acquired for nearly $1 billion by Google Inc., misappropriated proprietary data.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


GPS navigation company PhantomAlert Inc. has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit
against Waze Inc., alleging that the popular mobile phone map application - acquired
for nearly $1 billion by Google Inc. - copied and misappropriated proprietary data.


Waze made headlines in 2013 when Google announced its purchase of the map app fo...

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