Comments on: Google gives up on Gmail name in U.K.

Search giant stops using Gmail name after protracted wranglings with U.K. research firm that refers to part of its software as G-mail.

[TV James]

Jerks!

I hate bogus junk like that. Opportunistic jerks looking to make a quick buck.

When we took TVNet.com from a hobby site to a start-up, we relaunched as UTV: The Ultimate Television Network. Not too long after, we get a letter from a lawyer telling us that UTV was an internal term used by a televion group and that they didn't want us using it.

We even had the term researched before we launched and our lawyers cleared the name as available. To strengthen their case, the television group even created logo and started using the name externally.

So we shortened it to to UltimateTV, which I thought was a cooler name anyhow. (So cool that Microsoft later purchased the name, leaving the company with the dreadful "Zap2It" name. Of course, Microsoft later abandoned the project, the name dying with it. D'oh.)

But all this to say that other company is lame.

[Andrew J Glina]

Annoying isn"t it?

When I started my software company within six months I had my first cease-and-desist letter. Since the company was Novell and the program they were referring to was minor I gave up without any fight.

[TV James]

Jerks!

I hate bogus junk like that. Opportunistic jerks looking to make a quick buck.

When we took TVNet.com from a hobby site to a start-up, we relaunched as UTV: The Ultimate Television Network. Not too long after, we get a letter from a lawyer telling us that UTV was an internal term used by a televion group and that they didn't want us using it.

We even had the term researched before we launched and our lawyers cleared the name as available. To strengthen their case, the television group even created logo and started using the name externally.

So we shortened it to to UltimateTV, which I thought was a cooler name anyhow. (So cool that Microsoft later purchased the name, leaving the company with the dreadful "Zap2It" name. Of course, Microsoft later abandoned the project, the name dying with it. D'oh.)

But all this to say that other company is lame.

[Andrew J Glina]

Annoying isn"t it?

When I started my software company within six months I had my first cease-and-desist letter. Since the company was Novell and the program they were referring to was minor I gave up without any fight.