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Philip K. Dick’s estate accuses Google of infringement

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Electric Shepard Productions, the company which stewards and manages adaptations of Dick’s published works takes offense that Google did not seek permission from Dick’s family to use the “Nexus One” name before going public.

In the author’s famous science fiction novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” a bounty hunter is set on a mission to hunt and kill (a.k.a. retire) renegade androids with the model name of Nexus Six. Readers of the novel may also remember the legendary film adaptation of this book that starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer called, Blade Runner.

It is the believed by the author’s family that Google refers to the book when it was creating the name for their new smartphone and should have sought permission to use it. “We feel this is a clear infringement of our intellectual-property rights,” states Isa Dick Hackett, one of the founders of Electric Shepard Productions and daughter to the late author.

Hackett argues that Google has created a mobile phone called Nexus One that uses an operating system called, Android. And as she points out, “It’s not lost on the people who are somewhat familiar with this novel.”

So far there is no comment from Google in regards to the IP rights infringement accusation from the Dick family
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