>[19.out.05] Trademarks
- Dispute forces Google to rebrand Gmail in UK
Source: Financial
TimesGoogle is to change the name of its Gmail service
in the UK following a dispute with a company that claimed
trademark rights to the name.
The decision, along with a similar switch
in Germany following an adverse court ruling there,
will leave Google supporting a different brand for its
email service in two of the biggest European economies.
Independent International Investment
Research, a small Aim-listed UK company that supplies
financial research, had argued that the Google service
infringes on the trademark of its own G-Mail service
in some 80 countries. The company also said that an
independent assessment had valued its rights in the
name at £25m-£34m.
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