Technology Trends

Google are no longer allowed to name their popular free-mail service “GMail” in Germany. Daniel Giersch har run the similar free-email-service gmail.de since year 2000 - long before anyone at Google even considered the name GMail. They launched their service gmail.com 1. April 2004.

Not their first loss

Google lost a similar case against the British corporation Independent International Investment Research (IIR) in 2005. Google now refer to their e-mail service as “Google Mail” i England. IIR has used the name GMail for an investor service since 2002. They estimated that “GMail” within the UK is worth between 48 and 64 million dollars in 2004.

It is not know how many other gmail battels are left. Gmail.no, for example, is owned by Gallagher & Robertson AS.

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