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Google can’t shake publishers’ US trademark claims on copyright preemption grounds

By Melissa Ritti ( October 30, 2025, 17:50 GMT | Insight) -- Two months after a New York federal judge refused to stay litigation against Google until the US Supreme Court decides how far Internet search providers must go to combat online piracy, she struck the search engine’s affirmative defense Thursday that trademark claims by a group of textbook publishers are preempted by federal copyright law.Plaintiffs partly succeeded Thursday in limiting Google’s options at a planned 2026 trial on allegations the Google Shopping platform allows third parties to advertise textbooks and other educational works known by the search engine to infringe....

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