Purdue Research Foundation Files Rare Suit, Hitting Google over “Power Bugs” Patent
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), a “private, nonprofit foundation created to advance the mission of Purdue University”, including “for the purpose of administering and commercializing various technologies”, has sued Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-00119) in the Western District of Texas. A single patent generally related to detecting “power bugs” is at issue, with infringement allegations centering on the provision of Android Studio, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android, as used with Android Lint, an integrated software package that scans for potential errors within source code as it is being written.
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