Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks 210
itwbennett writes "In follow-up to yesterday's story about how Merck in Germany is threatening legal action to take its vanity Facebook URL back from Merck U.S., Facebook apologized for its 'administrative error' in reassigning the URL but said that if the two companies can't play nice, no one will get the URL."
To which a Merck U.S. representative replied... (Score:4, Funny)
Here, drink this soda and see if you still feel that way.
Difficult problem (Score:5, Funny)
This is a Mercky issue to wade through...
you go FB! (Score:5, Funny)
No, I can't believe it either.
Re:Trademarks? (Score:5, Funny)
Look, if they didn't want their trademarks appropriated they shouldn't have gone to war with us 93 years ago.
Re:you go FB! (Score:5, Funny)
Solomon's solution would be give one of them the "Mer", and the other one "ck", and then instantly void the deal and give it to whoever doesn't want to see the name split.
Re:To which a Merck U.S. representative replied... (Score:5, Funny)
I was thinking the old formula for 7-up that included lithium.