Rosetta Stone Trademark Claims Against Google Revived

Rosetta Stone Inc. had some trademark-infringement claims against Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet search company, restored by a federal appeals court and returned to the trial court for further consideration.

Rosetta Stone had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, to overturn U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee’s decision in 2010 that Google’s sales of Rosetta Stone’s trademarked phrases as keywords in Web searches wouldn’t confuse customers. Rosetta Stone, a maker of language-learning software, claimed the keywords were sold to rivals and counterfeiters.