Glass, co-founded among others by Joaquín Ayuso de Paúl, ex-CTO of Tuenti—one of the largest social networks in Spain—is a web service that lets you add different layers to a site, so you can add comments, share them, and enhance the experience of web browsing for you and others.
One of the partners at Glass, Eric Bergasa, has confirmed today to Gizmodo en Español that they started working on their logo in 2008. One year ago, when they knew about the Google Glass project, they contacted Google to let them know that they were already using that name for their own product, which shared some conceptual similarities. For example: the idea of adding a layer of contextualized information.
Glass is a very generic name, obviously, and makes sense in the context of a pair of, well, glasses, so the fact that Google choose to use the name Glass is almost certainly nothing more than a coincidence. But explaining the similarities between both logos is actually a lot harder. Both are based on exactly the same typography (just look at the G or the S), with Google making only very slight changes to some letters. Moreover, Google, according to Eric Bergasa, already new about the existence of the prexisting Glass, its logo, and its typography.
The start-up has confirmed to Gizmodo en Español that they are thinking about suing Google for what they'e done. We've contacted Google for a response on the matter, and will update as soon as we hear from them.
This post has been translated and republihsed from Gizmodo en Español, Gizmodo's Spanish-language site.
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