Well isn't it interesting to see the tech giants Google and Microsoft join hands, who are almost ready to file allegations, constant altercations, litigating each other over issues like search results copyrights etc. Yes, its true as Google and Microsoft poses as co plaintiff's against GeoTag Inc., which sued over 300 firms in the recent past. This whopping data gives GeoTag Inc., acting as a patent troll suing an ample number of entities last year.
Considering the future prospects and saving Google and Microsoft's Bing maps from future allegations and controversies, both the tech giants filed recent lawsuit on March Ist 2011, invalidating the geo tag's patent (US Patent No. 5,930,474), on the context of existence of prior art during the filing of above mentioned patent. This could probably exempt some burden from the clients of Google and Microsoft who were sued by GeoTag Inc. recently from using their mapping services for the location of stores.Well what happens next will be an interesting issue but I shouldn't forget to mention that last September Google was similarly sued by Skyhook Wireless over location battle. The near future will reflect the recent developments in this case which will be worth watching.
( Image by Maxime Perron Caissy)
