Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling
by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:48PM
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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.
Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling
by phwd on Friday May 27, 2011 @04:53PM
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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.
Re:Google, Facebook Lose Social Network Patent Ruling
by dstein on Friday May 27, 2011 @05:00PM
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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.
(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].)