With a scheduled trial less than a month away, Google Inc. failed Monday to escape a 3-year-old patent infringement lawsuit targeting two of its hugely popular mapping programs.

In a brief decision, U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark in Delaware refused to toss claims that Google Earth and Street View infringe a patent owned by Transcenic Inc. Information on Transcenic is hard to come by, though court filings say the company is based in Lake Charles, La., and that it developed “spatial referenced image capture, organization and display” technology.

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