Reuters reports that Purdue University has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company copied its smartphone technology.

The Google logo is pictured on a sign at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Purdue Research Foundation has sued Google LLC in Texas federal court, alleging that Android software for eliminating programming errors in smartphones copies parts of its professors' invention.
On Tuesday, the foundation asked the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for royalties and an undisclosed amount of money damages based on Google's alleged willful patent infringement.
The complaint said two professors and two students at the West Lafayette, Indiana university developed the patented technology, which detects software programming errors that could affect a mobile device's power management.
After a Google engineer posted an article about one of the professors in an Android forum in 2012, another Google engineer found and incorporated code disclosed by the inventors into Android software.
Purdue received the patent in 2019. The university said it sent Google a notice of infringement last August, but the company continues to use the patented code.
A Purdue spokesperson said in a Wednesday statement that the research foundation tried to meet with Google for weeks, but the company refused to meet.
The spokesperson said that Google infringes multiple additional Purdue patents, and the school will amend its complaint to add them if Google "continues to refuse to negotiate a license."
Google spokesperson José Castañeda said Wednesday that the company does not develop its products in coordination with the Chinese government, and that it was reviewing the complaint and would "vigorously" defend itself.
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