Google’s fight for the ‘Gmail’ name
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Bet Google never saw this one coming! It seems that Google is in a fight for the right to use Gmail. And yet some how, I am willing to bet that they’ll find way to win.
Google’s free Web email offering may be available for correspondence in 40 languages, but efforts at worldwide expansion using the moniker “Gmail” continue to face complications.
Last October, the search giant grabbed headlines — and miffed some British users — when it voluntarily renamed its service “Google Mail” in the UK, following an out-of-court trademark dispute.
The woes don’t end there. Across western Europe, a quiet battle rages on between Google and Daniel Giersch, a German-born venture capitalist who insists he’ll never relinquish his six-year-old trademark registration of “G-mail…und die Post geht richtig ab” (translation: G-mail… and the mail goes right off)…. Source: ZDNet
