After 15 months of trademark negotiations, talks between Google and Independent International Investment Research have failed. IIIR claims first right to the "G-mail" mark because it set up members-only communications system called G-mail two years before Google's Webmail service launched. As TechDirt points out, there seems little chance of confusion between one company's corporate intranet and the mighty Gmail, but the argument is apparently worth taking to court and that's what might happen.
1. Google, negotiate?? Please. they have BILLIONS of dollars and going to trial will cost them nothing in comparison.
They could, in effect, bankrupt the other company by drowning it in legal paperwork.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Chris