Personalized User Model, L.L.P Files Search Engine Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Google
WILMINGTON, Del. – (Business Wire) Personalized User Model, L.L.P, (PUM) of New York has filed a lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, alleging that Google willfully infringed two patents owned by PUM that cover aspects of Google's valuable personalized user search technology.
"Large companies cannot be allowed to out muscle small inventors and misappropriate their valuable works," said PUM attorney Marc S. Friedman of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP. "We believe the Court will hold Google accountable for its willful infringement of Personalized User Model's very valuable patents," Friedman added.
PUM contends that Google's use of personalized user search technology infringes two PUM patents that were issued in 2005 and 2008. Official U.S. Patent & Trademark Office documents show that Google was well-aware of PUM's 2005 patent when its own patent application covering personalized user search technology was rejected by the U.S. Patent Office because of PUM's patent.
"Google is being sued for patent infringement for one reason - it is using PUM's technology and has benefited greatly from it," said Roy Twersky, an owner of PUM and one of the original inventors.