Google Scholar trademark case ends

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://news.com.com/Google+Scholar+trademark+case+ends/2100-1025_3-60962 
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A trademark lawsuit pitting the venerable American Chemical 
Society against Google has quietly gone away.

ACS, which was founded in 1876 and claims to be the world's 
largest scientific society, sued Google in 2004. The suit claimed 
that the free "Google Scholar" journal-search service unfairly 
competes with ACS' "SciFinder Scholar," which appears to be more 
comprehensive but charges a fee.

... the case was quietly settled out of court in Washington, 
D.C., earlier this month, with Google and ACS submitting a joint 
two-page document that says each side will pay its own attorney 
fees.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223