sorry to hear it aweshucks. i'm not up on german copyright law but registering a mark doesn't normally supercede a pre-existing usage - if it can be proven that the one preceded the other. you'd have good case in other words if you used ''emule'' before he did. not that the courts will automatically agree, and you'll no doubt have to spend funds that can be used elsewhere for your defense. it's yet another in a growing list of examples how copyright laws are used to stifle ideas as opposed to their stated purpose of diseminating them.
in the end it may make more sense to create a new name.
- js.
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