Purdue University Sues Google For Allegedly Stealing Technology
The foundation has asked the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to grant royalties for the use of its patent in addition to damages from the search giant. This patent pertains to a system that can detect power management bugs within the code. The West Lafayette, Indiana-based university credits one of its professors, Y. Charlie Hu, for the invention of this technology. The lawsuit claims that Google came across Professor Hu’s research on the matter in 2012 and subsequently embedded some of the code into Android Lint....