Rosetta Stone Agrees to Drop Google Trademark Suit

Rosetta Stone, a maker of language-learning software, agreed to drop a lawsuit it brought against Google for selling its trademarks to other companies for search-engine advertising.

The companies agreed that all claims in the infringement case will be dismissed, according to a filing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. No terms were given with the stipulation of voluntary dismissal. Rosetta Stone had claimed the keywords were being sold to competitors and counterfeiters. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled in 2010 that the sale of Rosetta’s trademarked phrases as keywords wouldn’t confuse consumers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in April overturned part of that ruling and sent the case back to the lower court.