Legal Opinion
Erich Specht v. Google Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 4, 2014No. 11-3317PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
During the dot-com boom of the 1990s, Erich Specht founded Android Data Corporation, and registered the “Android Data” trademark. The company ceased principal operations in 2002, but the Android Data mark remained registered to it. Five years later, Google Inc. rolled out its new Android operating system for mobile phones. Specht responded with this suit against Google, alleging primarily that, by releasing the Android operating system, Google had infringed on his Android Data mark. Google counterclaimed that Specht had abandoned the mark after 2002, forfeiting his…
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