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New Legal Threat To GMail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-you-can't-make-up dept.

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."

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  1. Follow the money... by blcamp · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I have to wonder if one of the plaintiffs clients is Amazon.com and/or Jeff Bezos.

    I don't see how these guys are going to get anything other than some $TFU money... if even that. Google has deep enough pockets right now to brush back anyone that steps up to them. Look at how they are going toe-to-toe against Microsoft in the poaching case.

    It's silly for them to try and pursue this. It is no less silly, IMHO, than if I were to try and challenge God Almighty by claiming the digital rights to sunshine.

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    The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
  2. Re:Sounds legitimate by mbelly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wish I had mod points...

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    ~Belly