Xerox Sues Google, YouTube And Yahoo

Xerox is suing Google, YouTube and Yahoo due to infringement of Xerox patents on integration and search technologies. Xerox filed the documents about a week ago in Delaware US District Court.

Xerox alleges that Google's AdWords and AdSense services violate the Xerox patent on automatically generating searches. The company goes on to state that Yahoo Search Marketing, Y!Q Contextual Search and Yahoo Publisher Network also infringes on their patent.

They further allege that the Google Video, Google Maps, YouTube and Yahoo Shopping services all violate the Xerox patent on technology that integrates information from different sources.

The patents at issue in this case are U.S. Patent 6,778,979 and U.S. Patent 6,236,994.