Monday, December 13, 2004

ACS sues Google over Scholar

Found this via LISnews.
: "The American Chemical Society filed a complaint on Dec. 9 against Google Inc. in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint contends that Google's use of the trademark Scholar for its Google Scholar literature-search engine constitutes trademark infringement and unfair competition.

A beta version of Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) debuted in mid-November. The search service allows users, at no cost, "to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research," according to a Google website."

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