GMail gets owned by German dude

[CrAz3D]

http://www.thelocal.de/12667/20080623/

Always interesting to see the giant fall

[Hitmen]

According to Keuchel, Google's action stems from a German court decision in July 2007, which ruled that Google could no longer use "Gmail" for its email services based on Giersch's trademark.

"Following this ruling, we decided not to offer or provide information about email services in Germany that include the word 'Gmail'," Keuchel said. "We're taking this action even though we believe we're not legally obliged to do so."

???

[while1]

Gmail != G-mail

kek

Na, but in all honesty, methinks justice was served.  But I unlike that dude, I probably would have taken a generous settling payout...

[CrAz3D]

taken a generous settling payout...

srsly

[Camel]

Gmail != G-mail

May want to read Intellectual Property law before you assume that. I don't know anything about German IP law, but in the US they are the same. Google could very easily get around the trademark though; their brand name is associated with the searching feature, even in their email services, and so they could argue that they are not in the same industry by virtue of word association (which is entirely what IP is about). It seems that they're not trying, presumably, because it would be evil to squash small business, and Google's internal motto is to do no evil.