Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Suit Against Google Stands

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 (Reuters) — A federal judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit contending that Google’s AdWords program abuses trademarks.

Judge Jeremy D. Fogel ruled that the public had an interest in whether AdWords, the company’s popular pay-per-click advertising system, violated trademark law.

American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, the top American retailer of window blinds, charged that Google had abused trademarks by allowing rivals of a company to buy ads that appear when users search the Web for information on its business.