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Northeastern University Sues Google Over Patent

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the who-isn't-suing-google-these-days dept.

kihbord writes to mention that Boston's Northeastern University and Waltham, Mass. based company Jarg have brought suit against Google for apparently infringing on a distributed database system developed by Kenneth Baclawski. "The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks search queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas."

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  1. Solution in the last Slashdot story? by ErikTheRed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad we can't apply the Stupid Filter to the patent system.

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  2. Oh come on by ILuvRamen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, people. It's a fairly strange, unique idea that they came up with that I don't think anyone had done before and they were actually using the patent by leasing it out to someone or whatever you want to call it. That's not really patent trolling. Trolling is coming up with some ridiculous idea and sitting on it so you can sue someone when they try to do it

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  3. Re:Prior Art? by jmnormand · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes but your system had nothing to do with internet search. and there is obviously no way to possibly draw and obvious connection between a database search for internal business use and one for internet use. well at least not for any judge in texas... wait northeastern is in ma, google is in ca, why is this case in texas? does cheney have stock in jarg?