A judge has dismissed Rosetta Stone’s suit against Google, reports Reuters.
The language software designer Rosetta Stone filed suit against against Google in 2009. Rosetta Stone claimed that software pirates were abusing search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to steal sales from Rosetta Stone. When the term "Rosetta Stone" is searched on Google, the first results often lead to an imitator brand that pirates Rosetta Stone’s software.
"It’s not just about Rosetta Stone, frankly," Rosetta Stone CEO Tom Adams told Reuters. "This is happening for lots and lots of other companies. We’re willing to stick our neck out. Google is a very intimidating company."
Rosetta plans on appealing the judge’s decision to a higher court. It hopes to have a full jury trial.
According to Reuters, Google released a statement last week indicating that it felt the judge’s ruling was "consistent with a growing line of decisions."
This isn’t the first instance of Google being sued because it allows other companies to piggyback on popular brand names – in March, The Guardian reported that Google won the suit brought against it by Louis Vuitton for the same thing.
