Tako je bar sud u Nemačkoj odlučio. Gmail je prekšio zakon zato što previše liči na G-mail kompaniju Daniela Gierschera
Citat:No Gmail for Google in Europe, says EU trademark office
Google has once again been thwarted in its bid to trademark "Gmail" in the European Union because of a similar trademark in Germany. The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) has just published a ruling made last month, dismissing Google's appeal of the original decision against the company. Instead, the trademark for "G-mail" remains securely in the hands of Daniel Giersch, who has run an e-mail service with the name since 2000.
The case started back in 2004 when Google first launched Gmail and applied for trademarks worldwide. In 2005, Giersch filed an opposition to Google's application on the grounds that the trademarks were nearly identical, as were the services they represented. Giersch won his case last year, due to the visual, verbal, and aural similarity, not to mention that Giersch's mark had already been protected in Germany.
Google did not take the decision lying down, appealing it immediately. The company argued that numerous trademarks containing "mail" in addition to a single letter coexist in the Community Trademark Register, International Trademark Register, and German Trademark Register. The company also pointed out that the color differences—Google's logo uses the company's traditional red, blue, yellow, and green, with Giersch's is yellow and black—would reduce any confusion between the two services. Giersch's trademark also contains a slogan that reads "und die Post geht richtig ab" (roughly translated to mean that the mail is taking off), which Google believes further differentiates the two....
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080318-no-g.....ffice.html
Na jednom drugom sajtu sam pročitao da je Danielu ponuđeno 250 000 dolara za otkup imena ali ovaj je odbio. Ima da ih izmuže koliko mi se čini
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