Google Faces Trademark Tug-of-war With Kid’s Web Site

If You’re familiar with “Googles and the Planet Goo,” you might be familiar with the web site Googles.com [you already know where this is going] which existed before the almighty itself. When Google recently decided to begin marketing products to children, the owners of Googles decided to file a complaint with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. “Googles.com says it attracts about 170,000 weekly visitors; Google’s search engine attracts more than 65 million unique visitors each month. Google is seeking to raise $2.7 billion in a hotly anticipated initial public offering of its stock; Esrig says he has been struggling to raise $3.2 million, partly because investors have been spooked by the unsettled trademark struggle with Google.

Anything that makes Google look like a corporate bully seems likely to upset company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The budding billionaires have vowed to build a company that blends benevolence with technological brilliance.” Read More.