Shagbook won't take Facebook thrust lying down The "hottest place to hook up with local singles for no strings attached adult dating" is fighting back against Facebook's demand that it change its name. Shagbook – an outfit based in Windsor, UK – has filed an Answer to Opposition with the United States Patent and Trademark office in response to Facebook's assertion that its …
Not only is "facebook" a generic term, but I was a college freshman in 2003, and my school was among the first to be supported. I distinctly remember getting an email explaining that Facebook was a digital replacement for the traditional freshman facebook, which made perfect sense given that there didn't seem to BE a physical facebook for my class.
Mexico, South of Canada... Since I prefer to use "America" in the non-hijacked way. Unfortunately, that word usage has soooo much negative baggage associated with it these days that US Citizens with multiple passports and who think worldly are careful to not brandish that US passport for personal safety reasons and to avoid appearance of ostentatiousness. The STUPID ones, though, ARE ostentatious at the international level
I despise many of the patents I see currently or previously issued/granted by the USPTO. Many are heinous.
In the digital age, it is obvious that the collision of cultures and regions means many words will expectedly see even more duplicated application. For example, in the USA, a person in San Francisco can form a company called Acme Rentals (if not already formed/incorporated) and have protection to use it IN San Francisco. if one does so at the state level before one is formed in a city, one might enjoy name/trademark protection at the state leve. Then, for more protection, go to the USPTO.
But, do BANKS gripe and snipe at each other. Imagine if an on line sperm bank formed and called itself "esperm". Will beauticians and perms specialists get huffy and puffy? What if SpermBank.com formed. Would banks come after them. What if SpermBank.com had a jingle/slogan "More BANk BANKG for yout BUCK (thrust/hip movement)". Would it be sued by the company that uses "More BANG for your BUCK" in it's adverts?
This madness needs to end.
I'm joking of course ... but I suspect they will do it eventually, ha ha
Police will also no longer be able to "throw the book" at criminals, now they must throw unencrypted USB pen drives at them instead, these will contain PDF copies of the law. However, criminals must not use a Mac Book to view the said PDFs on!
If that (admitedly rich) prat Zuckerberg had actually thought of an original name for his operation like humbinko or something idiotically web2.0 then yeah. Instead he took a widely used generic term which itself is formed by joining two common English language words together. Fail.
Else he should be trying to sue blackbook.com and cookbook.com as well and maybe facetious.com and oh, don't forget facetime.com
What a moron.
Long ago when I was a sadder younger person, I used Faceparty (Before that Yahoo!, but they made one of their enforced updates that broke everything). I'm sure that this predates Facebook by a bit, so Perhaps Facebook is actually the one that should change it's name. Obiously it can't call itself face anything, because that would be stepping on faceparty's name.
Perhaps Crapville? Sadville?
... by registering facebook as a TM you, by implication register face and book and presumably cebo.
And good luck with defending a TM that is a common word in use for a physical directory of names and faces before you were born.
Crock of shit.
There should be porridge for vexatious suits.
At one point, I was contemplating registering arsebook.com. Butt I couldn't be arsed.
Who knows, there could have been many dozens of punters move over from the other side (or should that be "end"?), like this creative soul -
http://www.laurajanewilliams.com/2010/03/arsebook.html
Anyone remember The South Butt?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/north_butt/
Paris - Did someone say shag?
when i move to a position of benelovent dictatorship this is one of things I will come down hard on.
If you can't be bothered to think up an original word to describe your product you have no NO *NO* rights to the individual words you've welded together. think of the problems with easy jet etc.
in fact even raising it in my new world order would mean your website got banned and the CEO was sentanced to an ass raping by Brian Blessed in full Flash Gorden outfitbefore being unblocked (broadcast live on skype - another name you can't really arse around with if you'll pardon the pun)
seriously, plenty of others have got round it like, erm, amazon, bing, hulu, boxee, google,... list could go on forever. its only shit people that have to weld words together.
"Ha Ha! on Shagbook's front page disclaimer:
"Shag Book ® is not affiliated with Facebook, Facebook of Sex, Fuckbook, or any other site with "Book" in its name." "
So I did a search:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Facebook+of+Sex&first=1&FORM=PERE
Some of the links surprised even me.
My friend once had a product called "PodFitness" that combined workout tutorials with your own playlist. Apple went after him, and rather than defend it he abandoned the name and came up with another. Then Apple decided not to try to own "Pod" stuff. I predict that…awh geeze, forgive the double entendre…if shagbook has the, uh, staying power, they will prevail.
should be summarily dismissed, and with prejudice: appending "Book" to another word is NOT an infringement on their Trademark, assuming their trademark should have been issued in the first place, which it probably should not have been. There could be "look and feel" issues, and there might possibly be core engine issues. Of course, given what FaceBook have tossed back into the freebie bin, that would really be getting down into the muck.
E-stopped? I think that's a bit severe - I mean, you've killed the main power, so you're going to have to rehome things manually if you haven't got absolute encoders, the heaters will have to be brought up to temp... if there's any material in the transport system you'll have to get it out of there, too, and that's going to cause interlock problems, because the damn things never work right when a panel hasn't been opened in two years...
"Shagbook's filing also asserts that Facebook is being heavy-handed. "[Facebook]'s opposition should be denied under the equitable doctrine of unclean hands," they argue,"
Whose hands are are clean after "shagging", anyway?
""Thus, [Facebook] should be estopped from arguing that it provides services that are the same as or related to the services provided by [Shagbook].""
Estopped AND e-stopped, lol!
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