January 22, 2018
A California federal judge Friday tossed litigation accusing Berlin-based Searchmetrics GmbH and a California subsidiary of infringing a rival search engine optimization firm's patents, agreeing the asserted inventions related to statistical market analysis and market share growth and were not patentable under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice ruling.
November 20, 2017
A dispute about the scope of Germany's stringent data privacy laws took center stage in a patent row earlier this month between two search engine optimization firms facing off in California federal court, when a judge chided one company for trying to hold on to data that was already shielded by a protective order.