Yesterday in an official Google Blog Post, Fighting fraud online: taking “Google Money” scammers to court, Google has announced that it’s taking action. In a move that many have deemed long overdue Google has filed suit against Pacific Web Works, one of the leading perpetrators of the infamous Google Biz Kits.
The plaintiff has cited a litany of charges in a civil action including: trademark infringement, dilution, unfair competition, cyber piracy, state law trademark dilution, common law trademark infringement, violation of the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act, and violation of the Utah Unfair Competition Act.
Google’s primary complaint is that PWW was if not explicitly then implicitly leading folks