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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. Help! Taco, come back to us! by utkonos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have left us at the mercy of trolls and idiots. Headlines don't even make sense anymore.

  2. Re:Maybe I'm Naive But.. by NFN_NLN · · 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.