Entrepreneur Steven Esrig has "initiated a trademark infringement action against Google, alleging the Mountain View-based company is trespassing on turf that rightfully belongs to a small children's Web site called Googles.com, reports AP.
"The site revolves around four alien creatures created in a 1991 book by Steven A. Silvers titled Googles and the Planet of Goo. The book spawned a kid-friendly Web site, Googles.com, in July 1997 — two months before Google registered its domain name, according to a complaint filed Tuesday with the US Patent and Trademark Office."
