Facebook owns you. Well, part of you, anyway. The face part. According to new court documents, the company is going be awarded the trademark for the word “face.” Yep. Face. The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office let the social network know via a Notice of Allowance.
The Patent and Trademark Office will grant the site the trademark to the word for,
Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter.
Says CNN,
The type of application Facebook filed requires the company to provide a sworn statement that it intends to use the trademark on products. The company will have to file that “Statement of Use,” and then it will have to use the “in commerce” before it has actual legal claim to the word “face.”
The site is, perhaps unsurprisingly, also actively going after sites that use the suffix “book,” having sued the educational start-up Teachbook.
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