on Mar 1st, 2007
Google to lose gmail???
It looks like there is a fairly large amount of despute going on over the intellectual property rights over Googles Gmail service. Another British company (IIR) alleges that they had the rights first and that Google is infringing on them.
Current the case is tied up in court back in the USA. Thankfully, IIR is not asking that the domain (which they value at somewhere between 48 and 64 million dollars US) but rather that google change the name of the service to something else.
IIR points to the case of Apple and Cisco whose resolution of the “iphone” dispute has shown how “responsible companies” settle disputes.
Does this mean that google will have to change the name of their service (without changing their domain)? Does anybody outside business even care? I like my gmail service and as long as it doesn’t get interrupted, I don’t really care what it is called.