Google Germany Loses Rights To "Gmail"

In the U.S., "Gmail" is synonymous with "Google." It looks like things are going to play out differently in Germany, however. The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) ruled today that Google can't use the term. The legal wrangling has actually been going on for some time, and this was only the latest decision that didn't fall in the search engine company's favor. Google's opponent: German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch, according to The Register's Jan Libbenga. "The German entrepreneur founded a same-day mail delivery service called G-mail designed to offer a swifter alternative to the Deutsche Post," Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok: Doug is a staff writer for murdok for the latest eBusiness news.