Litigation

Google LLC v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al.

pending

3:26-cv-00363

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Filed
2026-05-04

Patents at issue (4)

Plaintiffs (1)

Summary

Google LLC filed a declaratory judgment action against Valtrus Innovations Ltd. and Key Patent Innovations Ltd. in N.D. Cal., seeking declarations of non-infringement for U.S. 7,936,738, 8,379,538, 7,640,332, and 7,904,686. Accused products include Google Kubernetes Engine, Managed Service for Hadoop, and Managed Service for Kafka, with Kafka mapped against the '738 patent.

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