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Technology,
Intellectual Property

Aug. 25, 2022

Waze Mobile, Google and Samsung get patent case moved to California

According to court records, the dispute between the three tech companies and Malcom K. Breyer, Jr., a former Marine turned CEO of AIG Software Development LLC, centers on Waze’s in-app modality that displays the location of a user’s friend on a map using GPS technology and allows the user to send a message to the friend.

Waze Mobile, Google and Samsung were granted a venue transfer, moving the litigation of patent infringement claims over Waze’s location based messaging feature from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of California.

The transfer came Tuesday, three months after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap’s denial and instructed the lower court to send the case West, “as a matter of j...

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