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Giersch won an injunction stopping the search giant using the name, echoing a UK case in which London-based Independent International Investment Research, which had been using the name 'Gmail' for its investors' online data suite, forced Google to <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html">rename</a> its product 'Google Mail'. Now Giersch's lawyer said Google would have to continue with its appeals against the injunction because the businessman will not be bought. <blockquote> "Daniel made it clear from the beginning that he had never had the goal to sell his trade mark," Sebastian Eble <a href="http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=7882">told</a> Out-Law this week. "Daniel is a millionaire so, you know, €250,000 is for Daniel not a big amount of money. Even if they would ... offer him millions, I do not think that Daniel would sell it because it is like his little baby, Giersch-mail, so it is named G-mail." </blockquote> Giersch holds the key to G-mail across much of Europe. OutLaw reports he has also trademarked it in Norway, Monaco and Switzerland - suggesting that, if it cannot buy the name, Google may be forced to dilute its e-mail brand across swathes of the continent.

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A German businessman who owns the 'G-mail' trademark so desired by <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> says he would refuse to sell the name, even for millions of dollars. Hamburg-based <a href="http://www.giersch.com/rel/">Daniel Giersch</a> registered the name for his postal service in 2000 and launched an e-mail adjunct in 2003, before Google launched its web-based mail client a year later.

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