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New Legal Threat To GMail
wellington writes "Google is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service. Independent International Investment Research, a British company that specialises in research and has several leading City investment banks as clients, argues that it launched "G-Mail web based email" in May 2002."
This guy is a bloody idiot.
I assume you are in the US...
You definitely could write your computer program and come up with thousands of potential trademarks.
Then I suppose you plan to register them, right? Well, that will be $275, $325 or $375 per class per trademark. Assuming you do the filing on your own of course. Oh, don't forget to be extremely specific on your required statement of how and on what your trademarks will be used.
Also, you shouldn't forget that it's an extra $100 per class per trademark if your mark isn't in use but you plan to use it. Assuming all of your trademarks pass muster, you will be given 6 months to put them into use. You can continue to file extensions of course, so don't fret! It's only $150 per trademark per class.
And finally, you should not forget the final $100 statement of use that you have to file once you actually use your thousands of generated trademarks.
Now, let's do some math. Your program generated 3000 trademarks. Since you want them to be broad, let's say you are creative enough to get them approved for 3 classes. You are filing electronically, so let's see... That's $3,825,000. Now we have to keep postponing them until we are ready to use them for 3 years. That's $8,100,000. And then we have to actually create the websites in which they will be used (Let's just say the websites are free) and file the final statement of uses for the trademarks. That's $900,000.
Alright, your little plan is just going to cost $12,825,000. Chump change! And not likely to work anyway. Oh well.