Facebook's Faces Trademark Suit Over Timeline 83
sydneyhype writes "Facebook's recently announced Timeline feature is up against legal action from an online social-scrapbooking company that has been in business since 2008. The company, Timelines.com, filed a trademark-infringement suit yesterday against Facebook, claiming it is to prevent being 'rolled over and quite possibly eliminated by the unlawful action by the world's largest and most powerful social-media company, Facebook.'"
Re:Help! Taco, come back to us! (Score:5, Funny)
You have left us at the mercy of trolls and idiots. Headlines don't even make sense anymore.
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Re:Maybe I'm Naive But.. (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe timelines.com should be suing the owners of timeline.com before they go after Facebook?
Trade-marks are intended to identify products and services for a particular industry. "timeline.com" appears to be an investigation and security company while "timelines.com" is a historical database. Facebook Timelines on the other hand is both a similar name and similar service and therefore infringes on "timelines.com"
Maybe they should just shorten it from "Facebook Timelines" to "FaceTime" and save themselves the hassle of a lawsuit :)
Thanks, I'll be here all week.