When Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, the company is forbidden to use the name Gmail for sending documents (e-mail). German businessman Daniel Giersch, has registered the trademark 'G-mail' (short for Giersch mail) to the electronic messaging service in Germany in 2000, long before Google announced its service in 2004.
As proclaimed TechCrunch (04.15.2012), the German Internet users to access googlemail.com, do not use Gmail. Google has tried to appeal against this decision, but in 2007 the California-based company was almost no legal options, after the office of the European internal market harmonization efforts rejected their appeal.
For a long time it seems that the end of a dispute with Google Giersch, but last week Google is resolving disputes Giersch. The German Google Watch Blog, domain and brand gmail.de moved to Google's Gmail on April 13.
Both Google and Giersch not comment on whether the amount of money this dispute, although it seems impossible Giersch, the domain over to Google, without some compensation. In 2006, Giersch claimed that Google had offered $ 250,000 for the German trademark for Gmail.
It is not clear whether Google is now the official address of the mail service to change in Germany Gmail.de. should be noted, although the German Gmail users can already use the switch dari@googlemail.com @ gmail.
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