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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."
Al Gore is gonna sue both of these motherfuckers for infringing on his internet.
Is this a sign of things to come for Google? Are they truly, as being threatened, going to become the next Microsoft? This lawsuit just seems silly, and it's not even an American Company? Not to say anything about Americans, I am american, well I was raised here, I consider myself American, and we like to sue people.
Could this be a case of too little too late? I think so - but I'm no lawyer either. Why has this company taken more than a year to lay claim as they are doing now? Or is it that I have been living under some rock?
Why not? T-Com (formerly the Deutsche Telekom) has sued other companies in the past for using the letter "T" - and, for that matter, for using the colour magenta.
They didn't win, but they sure tried.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
That's my idea too, but what about all the thousands of @gmail.com addresses?
Well, I suppose they can set-up a server that can forward the email while reminding the sender to use @googlemail.com in the future.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
Well, what would happen to the countless people with @gmail.com email addresses? Would they all have to simultaneously change their listings to @googlemail.com? That would create a lot of sore feelings on the part of Google users, and would be disastrous in terms of company image for Google. I think that is why they haven't just done it.
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
(The Beatles)
...and moderators.
Serious... how can someone mod this offtopic? Lawyers are the reason for this crap.
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