Legal threat to GMail

A British company launched "G-Mail web based email" in May 2002 - gmail.co.uk . And now, "after about 15 months of "correspondence and negotiations" with Google in an effort to have the "superiority" of its claim over the trade mark to G-Mail recognised, discussions are now at an end with no agreement having been reached."

The company's founder says "he was "reluctantly" considering taking legal action against Google, which could involve his family trust selling shares in the group to fund the claim."

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[The first battle for the claim to Gmail was brought by Daniel Giersch, who does own Gmail, but only in Germany. Giersch recently blocked Google's web mail service in Germany. But in the rest of the world, Gmail is still in dispute.]