Hm.
Well I guess if Patchou would sue them, he could win. (atleast here in Germany
)
We just had the case Google Gmail vs.
G-mail and it seems that,
Daniel Giersch, the guy who registered the german trademark on "G-Mail...und die Post geht richtig ab." won, atleast he pushed through a temporary injunction against Gmail and Google Germany had to rename their "Gmail" into "
Google Mail". Now everyone from Germany who wants to register a new account gets @googlemail.com addresses.