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The owner of an obscure Illinois software development company is suing Google and everyone else in the Open Handset Alliance over their use of the word “Android.”

The suit has made public the fact that Google’s own attempts to trademark the word have been rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), largely because the software developer, Eric Specht, had been granted a PTO trademark for his company’s name, Android Data.

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Specht filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, seeking an injunction on Android-branded products, which would include T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone, and $94 million in damages for trademark infringement. Besides Google, the Alliance includes a set of blue chip technology firms such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, China Mobile, Samsung and Vodafone.

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