To Cancel Facebook Trademarks — Talkbook Files

Firm challenges Facebook on its trademark for “Facebook”.

Facebook has been aggressively going following businesses with “book” in their name, counting challenging a trademark by phone app firm Talkbook.

But Talkbook is fighting back.

The firm responded by filing its own challenge against the social network for what it calls “fraudulent”
claims to get the Facebook trademark. Facebook originally filed for “The Facebook” ahead of filing an amendment dropping “The”. Talkbook disputes some of Facebook’s claims both on the original trademark application and when it filed to drop “the”.

Talkbook also dispute’s Facebook’s claims on its “first use in commerce” for some categories, counting when it started offering video sharing on its site.

You can read Talkbook’s claims here (pdf).