A preliminary hearing is scheduled in France on May 10th, in a civil case which pits Google against one of the largest insurance companies in the world. AXA is challenging Google’s Adwords program after, the charge has it, that “Google sold AXA’s registered trademarks as advertising search terms.”

There are also two lawsuits involving Google and American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc., on both coasts of the United States, which involve Google selling advertising when registered trademarks of American Blind are used as a search.