In a decisive victory for Google, a Wisconsin judge dismissed a company’s claims that two of the Internet giant’s search tools violated its patents. HyperPhrase Technologies had filed a lawsuit in April alleging that Google’s AdSense and AutoLink features infringed on four search patents that HyperPhrase owned for storage and retrieval of medical records. Those patents were filed starting in 1997 by inventor Carlos de la Huerga. But on December 21, Judge John C. Shabaz of the Federal District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, used unusually strong language to reject HyperPhrase’s claims before the suit could be brought to trial. HyperPhrase also lost a similar patent suit in September 2003 that it had filed against Microsoft over its Office XP Smart Tags function.

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