Comments on: Gmail by any other name?

Google risks losing trademark rights to the name of its e-mail service, as Patent Office considers other applications.

How about one for the underdog?

Believe it or not, I had all of these companies beat by about 6 months. About a year ago, I began using the term, "Gmail" for my site, ChronicGeeks.com. It was an internal messaging system for all of the geeks registered at Chronicgeeks.com to communicate with.

It never occured to me to go in for a patent or a trademark or anything ... so, serves me right. It doesn't mean I wasn't pissed when Google (and, it looks like everyone else) went and used the same name, too. I sent them an e-mail about it, but I never got a reply.

Damn the man.

[Jonathan]

Umm yah.

OK you all but admit it?s your fault for screwing up. There isn't anything that Google is doing that is illegal or immoral. Google + Mail = G-Mail. Simple. Its not like the are going out of their way to screw you or anyone else over.

So please give the underdog routine a rest. If anything Google IS the underdog. They are fighting to get an infrastructure in place before Microsoft and their 60 billion in the bank come crashing down on them like a tsunami and Yahoo is licking close at Google?s heels at this point so even though they may be a big time search engine site its not like they aren?t skating on REALLY thin ice. Holding a grudge against a company that is trying to make use of its name to get a competitive advantage against MS and Yahoo. Ya damn those evil google bastards. ;-)

[Jonathan]

Morons

Whoever the idiot who forgot to trademark\copyright\whatever the name before the announcement should be fired. Period. End of story. You KNOW that Google is going to have to pay off all 3 other squatters for the name. I mean do you think it was just chance that just after the announcement they tried to snatch it up? Expect a few million a piece for someone's lack of paying attention to the details. Again someone should lose their job because of this.

[Fray9]

Credit where its due

Im tending to cut them some slack on this one.. yeah someone dropped the ball but I dont think Google is doing too bad considering how young the company is and how inexperienced its leaders are.

Mistakes happen and its going to cost them sure but at least they'll learn.

And I for one wouldnt like to see some poor guy get fired because his boss gave him vague instructions or failed to mention that they needed to get the application sent in.

In my opinion something as important as a trademark or copyright is not something you can just delegate and forget. If the management wasnt following it closely then they are to blame more than anyone.

[blingin93]

well I think we can work somthing out about my page.

[blingin93]

why are people not writing me yet