Alphabet Inc.’s “mighty” Google faced an unlikely figure in a London court Monday: a cab driver from South London. Reports the LA Times….
The search company sued Goooglie Cars’ sole director, Sohail Nagi, for about $12,800, arguing that the cabby had been “unfairly free-riding off its reputation” by presenting the company name in Google’s style — using a very similar font and color scheme as the ones in the tech giant’s logo.
In 2012, after a two-month discussion with Google, Nagi agreed to change his logo to black with cricket balls in place of the O’s to represent the cricket term for a slow spinning ball — a “googly.” Google’s lawyer Maxwell Keay said this hadn’t been implemented, however, and the logo was changed only this year, after Google filed its suit against the taxi company.
Read more https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-11-12/google-sues-over-goooglie-cars-name
