Your Gmail Address Could Change
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If the Independent International Investment Research Group has its way, Google could lose the Gmail name. The group already won the rights to the Gmail trademark in the United Kingdom and is now bringing its fight to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)
IIIR wants the USPTO to nullify Google’s ownership of the Gmail trademark; according to reports it would allow Google to continue to use the Gmail.com domain name but would still require that Google call it something else other than Gmail.
At least it sounds like a deal can be made, that is, if Google feels like paying IIIR to go away. I’d hate to even think about changing my Gmail address. While I mostly give out email addresses that use my domain names, I would still have to notify everyone in my Gmail contact list and I don’t think I could reach everyone that potentially has it. What a mess!
Google: The British Are Coming For GMail!
[tags]gmail, trademark, trademarks, USPTO, google, IIIR[/tags]
18 Comments
Rick Hogan
March 1st, 2007
at 4:04pm
Isn’t this the price you pay and the risk you take when you depend on a free e-mail service?
Rick
Mike
March 1st, 2007
at 7:05pm
That is the price you pay when you depend on any domain name being safe from someone else declaring they have rights to it. I would argue that there is not a single domain name that is 100% immune.
Eric Dyer
March 4th, 2007
at 10:18am
In the UK we have just been offered to register for googlemail. Having signed up I was issued with the address ricktug@googlemail.com but messages sent to gmail are still arriving are you telling me this will stop?
rolf niebergall
March 23rd, 2007
at 9:58pm
why can i not open my e-mails? i used the right pass word. solve it soon i am very upset!
blairbeckwith
April 2nd, 2007
at 8:39pm
Why exactly are they claming ownership to the Gmail name?
jim
April 4th, 2007
at 3:47am
The GMail trademark, they (IIIR) have been using it in commerce since 2002 so have prior rights.
kitt
April 7th, 2007
at 5:30pm
hi. i cant find the web that lets me find my google account help me please
truefriends4ever24
April 23rd, 2007
at 6:56am
plz change it
jody
May 1st, 2007
at 9:46am
Gmail, Rest in peace
Francois H. Kuhn
May 3rd, 2007
at 12:08am
I think it would be terrible, if you should lose this!!!
Anna
May 6th, 2007
at 10:48pm
wow!!!
C-man
May 30th, 2007
at 11:22am
who cares? quit the whining U snivelers….U git what U pay for…simple…. free also has a price….too many Utopians want something for nothing w/o having to work for it w/o any effort……..wow…….now move on…..NEXT….!!!
Ederic
June 20th, 2007
at 11:43pm
I think Google has already been calling it Google Mail for some time already.
Smarter than most of you
July 16th, 2007
at 8:21pm
Quoted from the article link you gave. “…IIIR will not, however ask for transfer of the gmail.com domain, only that Google change the name of its email service.”
Duh people… the domain name (for the uninitiated thats the last part of the email address….the part that spells out gmail.com) will not change.
If they lose this, they will have to ask their artist to draw a new logo, and they will have to do a search and replace on all their webpages… (they will have to search for GMail and replace with GoogleMail)… thats all folks.
Now let talk about something important.
Gaffoor
December 6th, 2007
at 8:03am
Please change my gmail address
Tamilselvi
December 11th, 2007
at 9:39am
hi
i want to be part of this mail account
Jhonson More
January 26th, 2008
at 5:56pm
i want to belong in.
Agritrace
February 11th, 2008
at 8:18am
gmail is better than all