SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reinstated a patent claim against Google over the photography technology used in its Street View project.

Vederi v. Google revives claims by two former Caltech students who say they were creating composite photographs of neighborhoods six years before Google launched Street View. Chief Judge Randall Rader’s decision for a unanimous panel reverses a summary judgment that was granted by Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski while he was sitting temporarily as a district judge.

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