Judge Lets Google Earth Fly On
from the fly-away dept
While Google is getting some attention today for releasing the latest version of Google Earth to coincide with the "Where 2.0" conference, it also may have waited to find out whether a court was going to shut the software down. On Friday, though, a judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped Google from offering the software, due to a company that claims to own the patent on displaying real photographic content within a flight simulator environment. This follows the recent Supreme Court ruling that hopefully should make such patent injunctions less common. It's good to see judges not automatically jumping forward with injunctions in patent disputes, and at least allowing the rest of the case to play out.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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What about MS Simulator
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Prior Art
Someone needs to go postal down at the Patent Office and clear out all the brain dead employees!!!
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Dear Patent Owner:
There, have a ball.
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flight what???
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How to Fly
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flight sim yes stupid case yes
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google earth
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demonoid.com
information is free
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