Well its now official Google has lost the trademark battle for the word Gmail, it is offically now owned by Cencourse a company running out of Florida. Cenourse filed the trademark application on 9th April 2004 while Google was 3 days late coming in on the 12th April 2004 and hence Cencourse is technically the rightful owner to the trademark.
It now remains to be seen how much cash would Google pull out its piggy bank to buy the trademark rights for its own uses or are we all going to switch email accounts? Pay some close attention to the URL while checking your gmail account it does not show as gmail.com but instead reads http://mail.google.com/mail/?
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13 responses to “Google looses Gmail Trademark”
I never noted this. Nice dig.
haha
thats old 🙂 ..
do try http://www.gmail.com
it still works means its still gmail .. google mail was the orignal name .. as one of my seniors at google told me .. they used gmail long before we were given the invites ..
also since we are talking about google ..
you might like to visit the moonwith google 😀
http://moon.google.com/
cheers 🙂
TDH – thanks for the moon link – it sure is interesting concept
yes it is an intresting one, indeed worth mentioning, link
someone please enlighten me why gmail is soooo awesome according to everyone..?
google has left quite an interesting easter egg on the moon map.
gmail is not awesome…It is a new idea, it is fast and useful for those using the dialup service, otherwise i find it to be pretty clumsy…But than that is just my opinion…
New news to me and I’m usually up on the tech stuff. I can’t see Google changing everyone’s e-mail addresses though.
I bursted out laughing zooming the google moon thing to the max, must check out for urself…
I am a proud Gmail user. Never worrying about email size, incredibly fast reply (powered by AJAX, a technology often used by Google), Web Clips,
automatic forwarding, one button – click search, advanced filters, labels and not folders, message preview, automatic refresh, auto-save messages,as-good-as-yahoomail spam filters, not one executable to be sent or received, feeling of having a different technology? A definite recommendation for
anyone that reads more than one email per day.
Have you tried Gmail? If yes, what's your taste on it? Why do you love it/hate it?
This is the new information to me. Thank you to enlighten it
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