NBC, Others Sued Over Search Engine Registration IP

By Liz McKenzie

Law360, New York (May 12, 2010, 2:28 PM ET) -- Site Update Solutions LLC has accused 35 companies — including Target Corp., NBC Universal Inc., Adobe Systems Inc, Amazon.com Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. — of infringing a patent for registering websites on search engines.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses a wide range of companies, from automakers to news services, of violating a patent covering a process for maintaining ongoing registrations on online search engines.

The patent-in-suit — U.S. Patent Number RE40,683 — is...
To view the full article, take a free trial now.

Already a subscriber? Click here to login

You must correct or enter the following before you can submit this form:

All fields required

  5. Required

Only Law360 gives you:

Non-stop coverage of high-stakes litigation across 30 practices

Real-time tracking and reports on 10,000+ companies, firms and industries

Over 80,000 attorney profiles with neutral data collected from active lawsuits

Research tools to find cases, court documents, attorneys and companies

Customized feeds and alerts that can easily be shared with colleagues

In-depth expert analysis from high-profile attorneys at top firms

Access to our vault with over 75,000 original articles