Sacramento: Google has settled a trademark lawsuit filed by analytics-software company Visier over Google’s “Vizier” machine-learning software, according to a recent filing in a California federal court.
In a joint court filing on Wednesday, both companies announced that they had reached a preliminary settlement agreement and requested a pause in the case to finalize the terms. Details regarding the settlement remain undisclosed, with Google declining to comment and Visier not immediately responding to inquiries.
Visier, headquartered in Vancouver and specializing in human-resources software, initiated the lawsuit in 2022. The company claimed that its platform utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to provide “insightful predictions.” Visier argued that Google’s Vizier, a tool designed to optimize machine-learning models, could lead to consumer confusion and infringe on Visier’s trademark rights.
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Google refuted these claims in a court filing last year. The case, titled Visier Inc v. Google LLC, is being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under case number 3:22-cv-05323.
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Representing Visier are David Halberstadter, Floyd Mandell, and Carolyn Passen of Katten Muchin Rosenman. For Google, the legal team includes Margret Caruso and William Pilon of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
