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Google's plans to launch a free email service were thrown into confusion last night by an AIM-listed British investment research house which claims that it has been using the name Gmail for the past two years.
The Market Age, which floated four years ago but is only now clawing its way out of the red, yesterday vowed to fight its corner against the US internet firm. Chief executive Shane Smith said the company started using the Gmail name in June 2002. Its Gmail service has allowed its investment clients to pass on The Market Age's research to more than 80 countries worldwide over the past two years.

"It seems to me as a layman ... that we must have the right to the name since we were the first to use it. I do not think we want to give it up, we're not a charity."

Last week Google announced trials of a free email service called Gmail providing greater capacity than existing services from Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN Hotmail. It hopes to provide subscribers with one gigabyte of space - equivalent to 500,000 email pages.

Last night Google said it was unaware of any dispute over Gmail. Its lawyers had failed to find any registration of the name by The Market Age.

News yesterday that The Market Age could scupper Google's plans, sent shares in the British company soaring 155% to 25.5p. Even with that performance The Market Age is only valued at £4.4m. Google is expected to come to market later this year with a price tag of up to $25bn (£13.5bn). Mr Smith took the opportunity of the share price rise to sell 300,000 shares at 22.5p each. He still owns 51.4% of the company.

The Market Age specialises in delivering analysis of global markets for the professional and institutional investor market. Its initial products covered the foreign exchange, interest rate and other exchange-traded derivatives markets. Recently it has started providing investment advice and analysis to the hedge fund, corporate and retail markets.

Its Gmail service - which stands for Graffiti mail - allows clients to add their notes to The Market Age's research and send the whole document on to their customers as a web-based email. Mr Smith said he visited the US patents and trademark office website on Saturday and registered the Gmail name.

The Market Age said yesterday that it is making a profit before exceptional and financial charges on a month by month basis. "We are just starting to deliver on the things that we always planned and we certainly do not want to find ourselves tripped up by Google," said Mr Smith.