Visual Real Estate Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Google

(RTTNews) - Visual Real Estate Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of California Gold Corp. (CLGL.OB) and company founded by Jacksonville inventor and entrepreneur William Meadow, announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

The lawsuit claims infringement of three of Visual Real Estate's patents: U.S. Patent number 7,389,181, entitled "Apparatus and Method for Producing Video Drive-By Data Corresponding to a Geographic Location"; U.S. Patent number 7,929,800, entitled "Methods and Apparatus for Generating a Continuum of Image Data"; and U.S. Patent number 8,078,396, entitled "Methods for and Apparatus for Generating a Continuum of Three Dimensional Image Data."

The complaint identifies Google Street View and Google Earth as infringing Visual Real Estate's patents.

"We believe our patented technologies are some of the driving forces behind the demand for street-level imagery and online mapping..... Our inventions have made it faster, easier and less expensive to obtain street-level images with integrated location data, which has been a boon to many industries, including real estate, marketing, insurance, property development, tourism and recreation," said William Meadow, founder and CEO of Visual Real Estate.