A Boston university and an affiliated start-up have sued Google for patent infringement related to search engines. The suit was filed by Boston's Northeastern University and Jarg, a company that specializes in distributed search technologies and one of whose co-founders, Kenneth Baclawski, is an associate professor at Northeastern. The suit accuses Google of using a distributed database technology developed by Baclawski. The lawsuit seeks an injunction, royalty payments and damages. The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in a Texas court.

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