Monday, December 13, 2004

Google Sued Over Scholar

John Battelle's Searchblog

"The American Chemical Society yesterday filed a complaint against Google, claiming the new Google Scholar infringes on its own product, called SciFinder Scholar. "

Battelle reckons that the case is not down to the American Chemical Society & Google being in the same business but due to ACS wanting to keep their product's revenue....

"Aha! Google Scholar is free. SciFinder is paid. If Google Scholar wins out, SciFinder loses. They can't sue Google for making information free, but they can sue for trademark."

The legal action doc has been posted at Resourceshelf

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