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"MARSHALL (Legal Newsline) &mdash; Last month, Google Inc. won a $1 jury verdict against Beneficial Innovations Inc., a Nevada-based patent-holding company that has filed a string of lawsuits over patents related to online gaming and online advertising.<br /><br />In April 2011, Beneficial sued several companies in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, a popular venue for patent infringement cases because of its set of local rules for such cases and rather fast trial settings.<br /><br />The companies included Advance Publications Inc., which owns Conde Naste; ALM Media Properties LLC, the owner of various legal newspapers and websites; Amazon.com Inc.; American Media Inc.; Autotrader.com Inc.; Dell Inc.; Demand Media Inc.; Expedia Inc.; Rodale Inc.; Scripps Interactive LLC; Viacom, Inc.; and Village Voice Media Holdings LLC.<br /><br />Of the defendants, Advance, ALM, American Media, Autotrader.com and Demand were users of Google&rsquo;s Doubleclick Product, a type of advertising technology.<br /><br />Google previously, in November 2010, reached a settlement with Beneficial &mdash; considered by many to be a &ldquo;patent troll&rdquo; &mdash; that included protections for its customers.&nbsp;<br /><br />In July 2012, Google filed a complaint for intervention in the case,&nbsp;<em>Beneficial Innovations Inc. v. Advance Publications Inc. et al.</em>, suing Beneficial for breach of contract.<br /><br />That case went to a jury. In a Jan. 23 verdict, the jury found in Google&rsquo;s favor.<br /><br />Specifically, it found that Beneficial breached the 2010 settlement agreement with Google and Google was entitled to recover nominal damages in the amount of $1.<br /><br />&ldquo;Beneficial went back on the terms of its own license agreement, suing our customers for simply using our licensed services,&rdquo; said Matt Kallman, a spokesman for Google.<br /><br />The company said it is pleased with the symbolic, single-dollar victory.<br /><br />&ldquo;This is a great outcome that the jury worked hard to get right,&rdquo; Kallman said.<br /><br />Attorneys for Beneficial could not immediately be reached for comment.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach Jessica Karmasek by email at patents@legalnewsline.com.</em><br /><br /><em>&nbsp;</em><br /><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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