Tuesday, September 13, 2005

GMail trade mark dispute

GMail is Google's email application, right? Wrong! The name had been first used by Independent International Investment Research, a British firm that had a trade mark for Gmail. Google and IIIR have been negotiating but the UK company is sticking to its guns, they probably realise that they are sitting on a gold mine. They are even threatening to sue Google.

2 comments:

Andres Guadamuz said...

I'm sure that you are right. Their valuation of the trade mark indicates that they will ask for a nice number of zeroes.

Kroy said...

mmmm zeros... my payouts always contain lots of zero's. Just a shame that they are infront of the higher value digits, not behind.

I'd be pushing for a license if that were an option.