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  1. Re:Legitimate Case? by Tim+C · · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case

    the name they chose for their email services is wrong. GMail says nothing. They should have made it GoogleMail
    The funny thing is that they do in fact own the googlemail.com domain, which redirects to mail.google.com (as does gmail.com), and all their branding calls the service "Google Mail". In fact, the log in page says that mobile access is available "by pointing your phone's web browser to http://googlemail.com/app".
  2. Evil if you do, damned if you don't by Deiasce · · Score: 1 · on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case

    Although Google is using some strong tactics to try to preserve its ability to use the Gmail name, it makes sense to try to hang on by any means possible.

    Many people use Gmail as their primary email address; a large portion of these people may be using Gmail as their only email address. If Google were to lose the rights to using the Gmail name, it would make very little sense for email to still go to a gmail.com. A large number of people would be put through considerable difficulty to tell their contacts to send their email to a new address. Hey, with all that difficulty, why not switch to Yahoo! Mail? Pretty AJAX interface with integration with that new fancy iPhone.

    This is also not a new story. Check where that thing --> leads. There was a Slashdot article about this a long time ago too.

  3. Re:Legitimate Case? by josh+washington · · Score: 3, Informative · on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case

    fordiman@gmail.com and fordiman@googlemail.com

    Try both; supposedly either one will reach your account. And both sites gmail.com and googlemail.com should reach your account to login. So I assume that your "@gmail.com" will be fine.

    Plus it only applies to gmail.de unless Google feels like that's enough to redefine the whole GMail trademark globally. Either way, if you're concerned, start referring people to your email @googlemail.com.

    Oh yeah, you'll probably want to set a filter for those "mailto"s...