compuXP

Why would that be the idea? Usually the one sueing just wants money.

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SearchFeature

sometimes suing for money is the best way to get their attention

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stOx

Why should they? People don't spend money building a company and enforcing a trademark just to roll over and give it up to the first "big company" that demands it.

If google wanted to use Gmail in the UK they should have 1) done thier research first or 2) got the trademark before the other guys.
As they done neither, they don't deserve it... It's just google screwing up, And i don't see why a smaller business should pay the price for thier screw up.

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King Gareth

Ouchi ... wouldnt like to be Google! Suppose they ahve enough... money.... but ermm there reputation wouldnt be good !

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Christine8

Doesn't this remind you of the Evil Empire (MS) at its best?

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Isulong Seoph

Cannot see the news without logging in redherring.com

Rates Technology INC (RTI) do they have a website to look at?

IMO, RTI is just doing this purely for publicity as they know they can't win over Google. Yes, I'm sure Google will just buy them

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Katey

Hi there,

I 100% agree with stOx. Why should a medium-sized company like 'Contensis' have to sell out to Google. Google should of done the research before hand and noticed that the domain was already in use, Google I'm sure are too proud to admit that they made a really stupid mistake, and they know it. I'm sure 'Contensis' would of appreciated it a little bit more if Google approached them before the idea of Gmail and offered them a deal for the domain.

Instead Google go and do something stupid like that. Although people (and sometime myself) have to remember that Google as a whole never made this mistake, it was Google research teams. Google itself is one of the best companies in the world. They were bound to make a silly mistake like this at some point.

Although $5 billion is a rather hefty amount, maybe it won't come to this and it will get settled out of court. Never mind. "Do no evil".


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thegreatdon

Damn. Thats a lot of money.

black_pearl

That's really a big money. Hope google could handle it.

There are other VoIP applications around. But why is it that they're only sueing google? Is google the richest among the others?


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Katey

Hi there,

Because Google in a sense stole the service from the smaller company. Google are the ones which committed the crime.

*Edit* Sorry black pearl I was answering to a question that changed the thread about the Gmail VS Google Mail dispute, as for the VOIP case I am unaware. *Edit*


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webmasterran

now thats good money !

ya i'll definitely agree with AMH thats whats going on !

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