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Re:Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App St... by mambo69 on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:40PM (#2352187)
How did Facebook manage to acquire secondary meaning for the the name, when the term "face book" existed as a descriptive term for the exact same thing that sucker-borg created a variation of?
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Re:Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App St... by recoiledsnake on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:32PM (#2352365)
If Facebook sues people making face books, then you'll have a point. It's about co-opting naturally occurring words and then preventing people from using them to describe things naturally.
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