Google Fails to Escape VirtaMove Patent Infringement Lawsuit

A federal judge in California rejected Google LLC’s bid to dismiss a software company’s patent from its infringement suit against the tech titan.

VirtaMove Corp. sued Google in late 2025 for alleged infringement of US Patent No. 7,774,762, and Google responded by seeking dismissal. It argued VirtaMove hadn’t shown the products it was targeting in the suit matched a required step in the ‘762 patent, which relates to technology for a portable computing environment for software applications.

Whether the products perform that step, however, is a question “more appropriate for resolution with the benefit of claim construction and/or expert ...