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Facebook Timeline – Facebook Sued Over Timelines Trademark

Facebook, the number one social networking site on the internet, has been hit with a lawsuit over a trademark dispute surrounding its new Timeline owns the U.S. trademarks for “Timelines,” “Timelines.com” and “Timelines&design.”

Facebook Timeline, will be rolled out over the coming weeks, which will transforms Facebook user’s profile into a virtual scrapbook that lays out their digital history.

Timelines.com, on the other hand, is a website that allow users to view and create multimedia timelines for historical events such as the death of Osama Bin Laden and others. Timelines.com owns the US copyright for “Timelines,” “Timelines.com” and “Timelines&design” respectively.

Timelines.com assert that Facebook’s launch of Timeline in the weeks to come infringes upon its trademarks, according to a post from Mashable. Also, Facebook in its race to bring down the company image, deleted Timelines’s official facebook profile page which is at https://facebook.com/timelines and redirected it back to an introduction page for facebook’s new users registration page, though, Facebook has restore back the page as the time of this publication.

As at of Friday’s afternoon, Timelines facebook page is doing fine until the sudden change.

Details of the law suit filled against Facebook in the U.S. District Court for Chicago are as follow:

“Facebook’s use of the term “Timeline,” and its redirection of Internet traffic from Timelines’ Facebook page to Facebook’s new “Timeline” offering, infringes on Timelines’ federally registered trademarks in that it causes confusion as to the source of the services offered to users of the Internet. Indeed, Facebook’s “Timeline” offering and its misdirection of users attempting to access Timelines’ offering is intended to prevent Internet users from accessing information about Timelines.com and to allow users to instead use Facebook’s “Timeline” offering.”

Facebook has been dealing with many lawsuits for a very long time even in its young age (many of them from the Winklevoss twins), many of them are what facebook won, but this one might present facebook a stiff challenge.

What would you do if you were to be Facebook? Share your ideas in the comment area below.

How Facebook Timeline Works

This is your normal homepage - Every users can change this to whatever they'd like it to be
In 1987, my sister was born. Facebook knows these life events and includes them in your timeline.
You are Being Born - You can even add a picture and context to your birth, which starts the Timeline.
Timeline Interface - The Timeline is a two-column interface with top photos, status updates, friends and more.
Facebook Map - Facebook has added a feature that lets you see where you have visited. This is powered by Facebook Places.
Your Photos in the Timeline - Here is how your photos and friend's own are displayed in the Timeline.
Your Friends in the New Timeline - Here's what the Friends page looks like.
How to Change Your Facebook Settings - Some of the new Timeline's customization feature are displayed heres.

 

More of your information getting shared with people this year -what has happened for a very long time

 

Your Marriage Info - You can add life events, such as getting married, to your profile through the Publisher Bar. You can also announce that you broke a bone, got a new job, etc.

[Mashable]

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