London, April 8: First, it was privacy advocates who vowed to fight Google’s proposed e-mail service, Gmail. Now, a small-cap independent investment research firm said it owns the trademark to “Gmail” and it intends to battle to keep it.
London-based The Market Age said it had at its peak a year ago 1,000 customers representing 300 banks signed up for its core “Pronet” Web-based research application service, of which “Gmail” is a primary research product.
“When the news came out about Google’s Gmail last week, I went to the United states of america patent and trademark authorities. I thought maybe we were in trouble. But they hadn’t (registered),” Shane Smith, group chief executive of Market Age, told Reuters on Wednesday.
He said that on Saturday he paid the $700 (440 pounds) in fees to register “Gmail” under the company’s name. The Market Age never registered a “Gmail” Web domain, he added.
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