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How would closing their German office solve anything?

Google says: "We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany"

I'm pretty sure German laws only apply if Google has an office there. If they closed their office, they could call the service whatever they wanted.

If they charge a German company to advertise on a German user's email account and they are trading a GMail then it could be a trademark infringement. It doesn't matter where they have offices and it doesn't matter that they don't have control of gmail.de

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