Government Employees Insurance v. Google, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that Google’s sale to advertisers of right to use specific trademarks as “keywords” to trigger their ads constituted “use in commerce”
• finding that Google’s sale to advertisers of right to have specific trademarks trigger their ads was “use in commerce” because it created likelihood of confusion that Google had the trademark holder’s authority to do so
• dis- missing claim where the plaintiff failed “to plead a specific, existing contract or expectancy with a specific party” (quoting Moore v. United Int’l Investigative Servs., Inc.,209 F. Supp. 2d 611, 619-20 (E.D. Va. 2002)
• distinguishing WhenU’s conduct on this basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).