Looks like somebody is gonna hafta change their name!

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,808
edited November 2010 in The Clubhouse
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/24/2040247/Facebook-To-Own-the-Word-Face?from=fb

Facebook To Own the Word "Face"

"The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent Facebook a Notice of Allowance, which means it will grant the 'Face' trademark to the popular social networking site. Facebook now has three months to pay an issue fee before they officially own the word. From the article: 'For all intents and purposes today’s status update bodes well for Facebook’s hold over “Face” usages in “Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter, none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars.”'"
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited November 2010
    I wonder if like Monster they are going to go after people in really stupid ways, for instance; If I refer to the thing in the front of my head as a face!:rolleyes:
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited November 2010
    wow... I wonder why they went after that one... I've never heard anyone use the word 'face' alone (without the 'book') to refer to facebook. I thought common words were never allowed for trademarks
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2010
    Lame.

    (not you John:tongue:)
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited November 2010
    How in the world is this legal? So I can trademark the word "and" or some other super common word then sue the pants off of anyone that dares use it? I hate lawyers.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited November 2010
    Face wrote: »
    Lame.

    (not you John:tongue:)

    Heh. YOU were the one I was referring to! :tongue:
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