Friday, December 14th 2007
Google Sued Over Chinese Name
There seem to be more lawsuits than normal as Christmas approaches, this time it's Google in the spotlight. Google, which is known as "Guge" in China, is being sued by a firm based in Beijing called Guge Sci-Tech. Guge Sci-Tech was registered on April 26th last year, with Google not being filed there until November 24th later in the year, and now Guge Sci-Tech is claiming that Google's name has caused confusion and damage to its business and wants Google to change its Chinese firm and reimburse its legal costs. So far, Google's response has been to say that its Chinese name was already circulating the Internet before Guge Sci-Tech was registered and that it may have been looking to intentionally cash in on a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Source:
TG Daily
11 Comments on Google Sued Over Chinese Name
heh
Damn thats low.
Without google nobody would even know who "Guge" is, now they wanna play the copyright card to get some more advertisement by prolonging this lawsuit for years. They've been crying about this for a year now, time to shit or get off the pot.
Yesterday's news had Opera suing Microsoft. Looks like this is fast becoming a new media. I fart standing next to you, you sue me for the stink. C'mon don't you fart too? Got a cork down there? And then the reporters swarm in "How loud was it?" ; "Was it stinky or pungent?" ; "What did it smell of?"
A lot of businesses depend on Google. Imagine if they decide to remove Guge out of their search index, they'll face far greater losses than what the confusion is causing them.