Sometimes the Little Guy Can Win
We small business people often feel that we stand no chance if we have to compete with the big end of town and once those guys move in then it’s game over for us.
Well try telling that to Daniel Giersch who has taken on the might of Google on his own turf in Germany … and won. He’s even on his way to scoring another victory in Norway too.
Back in 2000 Daniel registered a trademark that included ‘Gmail’ and of course when Google began to get interested in the free email scene and wanted to register their Gmail trademark in Germany they bumped up against Daniel.
At first Daniel was interested in doing business with them but then he found: “Google’s behavior is very threatening, very aggressive and very unfaithful, and to me, it’s very evil,” he said in a recent telephone interview with CNET News.com from his part-time Los Angeles home.
Subsequently Daniel took Google to court in Germany and he won and retained the right to his trademark.
You can read the full story here
BTW if you missed me (… yeah go on … admit it … you didn’t even notice I was gone) it was because the last week both Toni and I have been facing some rather brutal work schedules and it’s probably not going to get any better next week either.
Oh well … at least it pays the bills 
