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Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL
angry tapir writes with an excerpt from a Techworld article: "Germany's Merck KGaA has threatened legal action after it said it lost its Facebook page apparently to rival Merck & Co. in the U.S., though it has yet to identify defendants in the case. In a filing before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Merck said it intends to initiate an action based on the apparent takeover of its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/merck by its similarly-named but unrelated competitor, Merck & Co."
So the US liberated them?
Yes the US liberated them much like the peaceful liberation of Tibet by China
OMG Ponies!!! with Glitter!!!! I miss Pink
I'm sure the American lawyers will say.
They already have a name. No one objects to them making a KGaA facebook page.
In fact, we even registered the KGaA.xxx domain name just so that we could give it to them, not that they even appreciated our gift -- those ungrateful Germans.
I hope they take Merck to the cleaners while defending their IP.
> Coffee is often made with boiling water
Coffee should *never" be made with boiling water as that scalds the beans.