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Facebook's Faces Trademark Suit Over Timeline

Posted by Soulskill on from the ask-the-traveler-for-help dept.

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.'"

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  1. Very weak case by dwillden · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Facebook isn't marketing this as Timelines.com by Facebook or even Timelines by Facebook, it's simply a timeline of your facebook information. A google search of Timelines had multiple items (not related to the news of the suit or to the FB feature) before timelines.com, including at least one other site that does the exact same thing Timelines seems to do. A search of the word Timeline failed to find the site in three pages of links.

    If FB were marketing the new Timelines website by FB then the site might have a case, but FB is using a generic term in accordance with it's definition.

    Somebody should make a Timeline about the history of such trolls.

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