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Informist, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026

 

NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court Friday referred Voicemonk Inc.'s patent infringement suit against Google LLC. and its group entities to mediation. Voicemonk has accused Google of infringing its patents relating to the display of search results on one page and learning about user behaviour across mobile phone applications to recommend future actions.

 

"Parties referred to mediation before a senior mediator. All efforts will be made by the parties to conclude mediation as soon as possible and not later than four weeks from today," Justice Jyoti Singh said. The court will hear the case next on Mar. 13.

 

Voicemonk said it is against the behaviour-tracking features of Google's Gemini artificial intelligence assistant and Android operating system. The petitioner company said the parties had been going through mediation earlier, but Google's offer was unsatisfactory, which is why it moved the high court. It said the court has the territorial jurisdiction to hear the case as the infringing products and services are accessible throughout India, including in Delhi.

 

Accusing Google of infringing its patent relating to the search of information, Voicemonk gave an example saying that if a user searches for black shirts under INR 500 in Connaught Place, New Delhi, its application will search for and collect all the relevant stores and display the results on one page. It said it has a patent for this.

 

Under the second patent, the phone tracks the user's behaviour through the mobile application and gives a prompt such as sharing a photograph on social media apps, it said. This, too, it said, has been infringed by Google.

 

Google said it would prefer not to get into litigation on such issues and would rather sort out the differences through mediation. It said at the earlier mediation attempt, the parties discussed only one patent and there was a huge gulf between the amount demanded and offered. It said there was no discussion on the second patent and Voicemark never brought it up. It said the petitioner had enlarged the scope of the dispute now and the matter should be sent for mediation.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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