December 12, 2025
American Chemical Society Files Complaint Against Google Re: Use of "Scholar"
Posted at 23:34 in American Chemical Society and Google Scholar.
:: Chemical & Engineering News reported on Friday that the American Chemical Society has filed a complaint in US District Court in D.C.:
The ACS complaint contends that Google's use of the word scholar infringes on ACS’s SciFinder Scholar and Scholar trademarks and constitutes unfair competition. SciFinder Scholar, a desktop research tool designed for academic scientists, was launched six years ago. ACS’s Chemical Abstracts Service estimates that about 1,000 colleges and universities have bought the service, which provides access to all of CAS’s databases, including information on journal and patent references, substance information, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions, and chemical supplier information.A discussion began almost immediately on CHMINF-L: see entries in the December archive by topic, under "ACS Sues Google..."
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