Google, Microsoft, and AOL have been sued over a Louisiana company’s patent on street-level views in online maps..Transcenic holds the patent on taking panoramic images and navigating them, Google Street View-style...interesting to know how many law suits are there pending on Google and Microsoft!! http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-microsoft-aol-sued-over-street-view-patent/3103
Its a publicity stunt.. And a dangerous one.. Unless Google, Microsoft and AOL are using exactly same technology Transcenic, i.e. it meets every single claim on the patent, Transcenic gonna lose the case pretty straight forward. You patent technology not ideas.
Agreed....it appears that Google had to smear the street view map for Germany because of privacy issues. Is that true?