A federal judge in Virginia has handed Google a partial win in one of the Justice Department’s most closely watched monopolization cases, declining to order the sale of key pieces of the company’s ad-tech stack while still requiring operational changes aimed at curbing anticompetitive conduct.

Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review, IPR2026-00440, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on August 27, 2026, opening another front in what may become a closely watched patent dispute. At this stage, the docket identifies Google as the petitioner, but practitioners should note that early PTAB filings sometimes provide only limited public-facing party details until the petition and related papers are fully available through the record.

What we know now is that this proceeding is aimed at challenging the validity of an issued patent through the PTAB’s administrative review process.

Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, docketed as IPR2026-00466 on August 28, 2026.

Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in IPR2026-00429, opening another closely watched front in the company’s broader patent defense strategy. The proceeding, filed on July 29, 2026, is captioned simply Google LLC, but as with any PTAB matter, the key questions for patent practitioners will be which patent claims are under attack, what prior art combinations are being asserted, and whether the Board views the petition as a strong candidate for institution.

At this early stage, the docket signals the beginning of the challenge rather than its resolution.

Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00418 on July 30, 2026.

Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00421 on July 13, 2026.