Herit Shah from Surendranagar managed to take on Google Inc by its horns. He has a blog, googblog.com that became the bone of contention. Herit had registered the domain in his name in September 2008. He received a notice from a law firm in Gurgaon asking him to transfer the domain to Google as it infringed the intellectual property rights of Google.

Google had approached the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in March 2009. Google uses the name “goog” for trading on NASDAQ. Herit, a student of the C U Shah High School of Surendranagar has passed his Class XII examinations recently.

Herit said “Google has made me realise my worth by filing a lawsuit against me at WIPO. I bought the domain on September 25, 2008 and posted blogs on computers, multimedia and electronic gadgets on it. I got a letter from a Gurgaon-based law-firm, Ranjan Narula Associates in January this year on behalf of Google, saying that I should handover the domain name to them under the IPR norms,”

Herit said that he did not regret registering a domain name similar to Google and the ownership should be transferred to them if it was amounting to a violation of Intellectual Property Rights.