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Originally Posted by woj
sounds ridiculous, but they are actually kinda riding on the success of facebook... before facebook, there weren't any social networking sites named ____book, or can you name some?
whether that is breaking trademark law is debatable, but the fact is that the site was named "teach book" mainly because of facebook's success..
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but another fact is that there were word combinations containing the word book long before Facebook existed. i.e. cookbook, blackbook, phonebook, ebook, audiobook, etc.... combining "book" with another word is not Facebook's invention. They are acting as though it was:
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[Facebook] argues "if others could freely use 'generic plus BOOK' marks .... that would dilute the distinctiveness of the Facebook marks."
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as they have sued others with businesses completely unrelated to social networking.