[LINK] Ironic - Googol sues Google

[jeff.evans at iird.vic.gov.au]

>From ResourceShelf:

   Source: The Scotsman
   Zero tolerance as Googol plans to take Google to court
   <http://business.scotsman.com/ebusiness.cfm?id=568832004>

   From the article: "A dispute over a very large number of zeroes is
   threatening to distract attention from a $2.7 billion stock sale by the
   internet search engine Google. News of the deal has brought a threat of
   legal action from the family of Professor Edward Kasner, who invented
   the word "googol" in the 1930s to describe a very big number. He wrote
   about the concept in a 1940 book, describing a googol as the number one
   followed by a hundred zeroes. Kasner's great-niece, Peri Fleisher, now
   insists that the US-based company has gained financially at the expense
   of the family. She said: "If we do have a legal right, we're certainly
   going to exercise that. And now is the time." However, experts in
   intellectual property said that bringing a successful legal action would
   be problematic. "It would be an uphill struggle to try to assert any
   legitimate claim," said David Gourlay, a senior associate at the Dundas
   and Wilson Technology Group."


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