By Kate Augusto
Northeastern, along with the private search technology company Jarg Corp., are suing Google Inc. for patent-infringement.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 6 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, states that Google, Inc. in 1998, took liberties to use a database system patented by Northeastern professor Kenneth Baclawski in 1997. The patent is for an efficient search technology, like the one Google uses.
“We want to try and have Northeastern receive as much compensation as Northeastern can under the circumstances that will result from this particular claim
