Google Loses Texas Patent Trial Over Showing Ads on YouTube

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000017d-2b23-dcb1-ad7d-ef6f1fe80000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Google and its YouTube unit owe $25.9 million for infringing a patent owned by closely held VideoShare LLC for a way to show advertisements with streaming videos, a federal jury in Waco, Texas, decided.

• VideoShare contended that much of YouTube’s success stemmed from inventions its predecessor developed in 1999 and obtained a patent on in 2019
• Alphabet’s Google argued that the idea was already well known before VideoShare Inc. was founded and YouTube’s popularity didn’t hinge on it
  • VideoShare Inc. failed for lack of investors; the LLC was later formed by the lead inventor, Gad Liwerant, to see if any ...