Facebook’s been trying to register the word “face” as a trademark for a while, but now the US Patent Office has finally decided to grant the social network’s application. Here are the details of what happened.
A Taiwanese monitor manufacturer is threatening to sue Apple for $US1.5 billion for the “iPad” name, claiming they registered “I-Pad” in 2000 for a tablet which failed to launch. Fujitsu tried (and failed), but Proview wants a stab too.
First Facebook didn’t want anyone else to have the word “book” in the name of his or her online community and now it doesn’t want anyone to have the word “face” either.
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s President, has been especially cagey about the final name for what’s known as the 3DS, but according to recent trademarks filed in Japan the 3DS model name could very well stick.
On December 10, 2009, Google applied for a trademark on the Nexus One name, but it looks like they’ve been rejected:
