Facebook reached a settlement with Timelines.com, which sued the social network over the naming of its profile page, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The two parties agreed to settle the case out of court, but financial information was not disclosed.
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Facebook fired the latest shot in its scuffle with digital-video-recorder provider TiVo over the trademark to the thumbs-up icon typically associated with the social network’s likes feature.
A trademark-infringement lawsuit filed by Timelines.com against Facebook in September 2011 over the social network’s use of the word “timeline” in naming its then-new profile redesign is finally set to go to trial April 22.
Facebook has been doing some poking around the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, filing for trademarks for Poke, Facebook Poke, and the logo for its new Poke iPhone application.
Facebook struck back in a lawsuit over its want button filed by Farmington Hills, Mich.-based CVG-SAB, which claimed that it holds patents and trademarks for its own Want Button product, launched in September 2010.
A long-distance calling company called Talkbook has filed a legal challenge against Facebook for alleged fraud in the way the social network trademarked its own name.
Facebook has been issued a ‘Notice Of Allowance’ by the US Patent And Trademark Office for trademarking the word ‘Face’.
