Gmail Changes to Google Mail in UK

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edited October 2005 in Science & Tech
The Register reports that due to a trademark dispute Google has been forced to change the name of its mail service from Gmail to Google Mail.

UK-based financial services firm Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) said its subsidiary ProNet Analytics has been using the Gmail name for a web-mail application since the middle of 2002, two years before Google began offering Gmail accounts to consumers.
The two companies entered talks into the right to use the Gmail brand but the negotiations broke down several months ago after they failed to agree a financial settlement. An IIR-commissioned assessment put a minimum value on the Gmail brand of £25m ($46m), a figure Nigel Jones, Google's senior European counsel, described as "exorbitant". Google continues to dispute IIIR's trademark claim.
Source: The Register

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  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    heh heh heh, they know google has money, and they want some of it.

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