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GOOGLE TRADEMARK WOES GROW: FROOGLE NOW IN TROUBLE!

From the AP: Googles Challenge of Froogles Rejected

A
three-judge arbitration panel ruled that Googles challenge to the 2001
issuance of the Froogles.com domain name did not have any merit. Google
complained that the Froogles.com brand name was too close to its own.
The issue takes on great importance because Google later adopted the
Froogle name for its comparison shopping site.
If
Froogles.com original claim to its name stands, it probably spells
disaster for Googles continued use of the Froogle brand name.
Froogles.com owner Richard Wolfe, a New York carpenter, started up his
site almost two years before Google introduced its own Froogle service.

The
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) decided in March that
Froogles.com was not confusingly similar to Google or any other trade
name. The lawyer for Froogles.com pointed out that the combined effect
of the two decisions puts Googles right to the use of Froogle
“seriously in question.” Wolfe has filed a challenge with the PTO to
prevent Google from registering Froogle as a trademark of its own.

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, July 26, 2004 at 2:36 pm
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