Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling

Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:01PM (#2592868)

Facebook is one of the most egregious patent and trademark trolls of late. The article has no insight into what the potential ramifications are if they lose this suit, but I think a company that trolls around suing every company with the word 'book' in their name deserves a major kick in the ass. Google on the other hand seems to encounter more than their share of software patent nonsense.

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by kmavm on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:48PM (#2593009)

Excuse me? I'm assuming you read the story, and realize Facebook is the victim of patent trolling here, and has never (no, never) used its patent portfolio offensively?

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by inkido777 on Thursday June 02, 2011 @07:48AM (#2611537)

Patent trolling is only when you don't put your idea/patent into practice. Winksite went live in 2003 when FB was still in a dorm room using university servers...

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:51PM (#2593022)

Yeah, I guess they only do trademark trolling -- I tend to lump most trademark suits in the same category as software patents.

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by SoftwareMaven on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:27PM (#2592939)

What trolling is Facebook doing? I haven't heard of any and would be interested in seeing the kinds of suits they are filing.

(Note: I consider trolling different from a company protecting the IP used to build its business, and I think most would agree with that, even if they don't support patents [which I generally don't].)

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:48PM (#2593010)

http://www.google.ca/search?q=facebook+sues

Protecting the name "facebook" is not the same thing as suing every company with either "face" or "book" in the name. You don't even see Microsoft suing every company with "micro" or "soft" in their name, because that would be ridiculous.

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by phwd on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:53PM (#2593026)

If you are referring to Lamebook, Facebook issued the cease and desist. Lamebook was the first to sue. It is clear that Facebook is targeting how the term is used _in relation_ to their company. Lamebook knows that.

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @05:00PM (#2593045)

Whether or not it's in their legal right to sue, I vehemently oppose activity of this nature, and reiterate that they absolutely deserve having the law similarly turned against them.

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Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling by seiji on Friday May 27, 2011 @07:25PM (#2593430)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

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