Google Hit With Patent Infringement Suit Over Mapping Technology

Google LLC is facing a lawsuit alleging it infringes patents for technology that incorporates “points of interest” into maps.

Never-Search Inc. alleges Google is infringing eight patents that allow “consumers the ability to access qualitative and geographic information concurrently within a single mapping platform.”

The complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California alleges the owner of Never-Search, Keith Kreft, devised the technologies in an effort to map golf courses. Kreft met with a representative of Google in 2006 to introduce the Never-Search inventions, and was told Google would “be in touch,” the complaint says. ...