Google loses European GMail trademark battle
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Confusion Google has failed to win the right to register the term "Gmail" as a wide-ranging European trademark.â¦
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The decision by Google to limit the retention of identifiable search data to a flat 18 months (as opposed to the 18-24 month range announced earlier) earned the company some rare praise from the European Union, which has been critical of Google&#39;s privacy policies.
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The plaintiff in a long-running  trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc agreed on  Friday to drop its case targeting the Web search advertising  leader&#39;s core business, according to court filings.
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Google doesn't like proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts.
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A federal appeals court handed  Google Inc a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday, tossing  out part of a summary judgment in the Web search engine's favor  in a lawsuit filed by HyperphRase Technologies, LLC.
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Google is threatening to shut down Gmail in Germany after the country's legislature came close to approving surveillance of communications over the Internet.
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Google is facing mounting protests from newspaper publishers in Europe, the impact of which could ultimately affect the amount of content available to end users through search engines.
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Google won a major legal victory Wednesday when a US judge said the search engine could continue to sell ads triggered by searches that use trademarked company names.
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Lawyers for Belgium's French-speaking newspapers and Internet search engine Google clashed in court, during a hearing into a copyright case against the US giant.
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American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory Inc. has dropped trademark infringement lawsuit against Google after a four-year fight.
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Google attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have competition authorities consider the handling of personal information in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick.
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Google Inc. lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's requirement that the Internet search company publish on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.
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(InfoWorld) - A court forced Google Inc. on Monday to remove all French and German language newspapers published in Belgium from its Google News search service. The order comes after an association of local publishers sued the search engine giant successfully for copyright abuse, Google said Monday.Copiepresse, an organization that helps protect the copyright of some of Belgiumâs best known newspapers including Le Soir and Le Libre Belgique, sued Google for publishing summaries of the newspapersâ stories, along with a link to the newspapersâ own sites.The court warned Google that failure to remove all material from the Belgian newspapers from Google news from Monday would result in daily fines of around US$1 million.The case was heard on Sept. 5 at the Belgian court of first instance but Google claims to have only found out about the court hearing and its outcome last Friday. "We were not able to make our case directly to the judge. We are disappointed by the decision, which we believe is flawed and which we intend to appeal,â said D.J. Collins, a spokesman for Google based in London. Reports earlier Monday claimed that articles from the newspapers were still appearing on the Google News search engine, but none were visible in the early afternoon local time. Collins said his company was complying: "We have removed the relevant sources," he said. Copiepresse wasnât immediately available for comment but in statements to journalists earlier in the day the organizationâs general secretary Margaret Boribon said legal action against Google was necessary because the company was profiting from the work of the newspapers. "We are asking for Google to pay and seek our authorization to use our content," Boribon told news agencies including Reuters. Collins dismissed the case as "entirely unnecessary." "Google has a clear policy of respecting the wishes of content owners. If a newspaper does not want to be part of Google News we remove their content from our index -- all they have to do is ask. There is no need for legal action and all the associated costs," he said. Google News benefits publishers, he added, by making it easier for people to find their content and driving large numbers of users to their Web sites. "It is important to remember that we never show more than the headlines and a few snippets of text. If people want to read the entire story they have to click through to the newspapers' Web site," he said. The case involving the Belgian newspaper publishers is similar to legal action brought against Google by the French national news agency Agence France Presse a year and a half ago. AFP generates revenue by charging fees to news outlets that subscribe to its wire service. In its complaint, AFP charges Google with copyright violation, alleging that, as a nonsubscriber to AFP, Google has no right to include AFP content in Google News. That case is still ongoing.
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AOL Europe Drops Overture for Google AdWords  AOL Europe and Google today jointly announced a new multi-year agreement that will provide users of the AOL European services with targeted advertising from Google's AdWords advertisers. What does this mean? IT means when AOL Europe users do searches on AOL Europe, Google Adwords ...
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Google Inc. lost a copyright fight on Tuesday that had been launched by Belgian newspapers, which claimed that the Web search service infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories.
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By CONSTANT BRAND  BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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Google can't use the Gmail name in Germany because doing so would infringe on someone else's trademark.