Templates.com Sues Google
April 1st, 2009
Extra! Extra! You’re not gonna believe this!
Accidents happen in our life quite often but most of them come around April.
Templates.com, one of the biggest players in web design industry, has brought a lawsuit against Google Inc. considering the violation of Templates.com’s copyrights by the Search monopolist. The official reason for that is the favicon of Google.com that as you may know is being changed every year starting 2006.
After countless hours of analysis the designers’ team of Templates.com has come to a conclusion that this year’s favicon logo of the “big G” really does resemble the one of Templates.com, especially in its color scheme. This very fact causes the misunderstanding and wrong associations: when customers see the Google favicon all they can think about is Templates.com. Because of this confusion two major companies, even though each is powerful and authoritative independently, can be considered as a single entity which in turn would negatively influence the respective parties’ sales amounts.
In the Templates.com’s lawsuit it is also stated that the very logo is a registered trade mark and any kind of unauthorized use of this trade mark or of its image is the violation of the copyright law. Besides, the company officials also claim that the actual situation with these two similar logos will cause the irrelevant associations and a mess among the Internet users as well as will bring out the rumors about Google acquiring Templates.com.
In their turn, the lawyers of Google Inc. bindingly claim that the Google and Templates.com logos are entirely different and have absolutely nothing in common.
It is also reported that Google has sued their former designer who has left the company not long ago and has accused him of disclosing the commercial secret. Does it mean that by this lawsuit Google officials admit they’re guilty? And does this mean that their designer named Douglas Bowman has left the company not because of the “data centrism and mathematical approach towards the design” but rather because of certain problems in design copyrights?
The final judgment will be pronounced after the series of experts’ investigations and actually the final case hearing. In the meantime the two companies are having a great time instigating their lawyers at each other and entertaining themselves with such an amusing experience!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 6:01 am
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