Facebook, Inc., the social networking website, and its founder Mark Zuckerberg were named in a lawsuit Thursday by Think Computer Corporation over the trademark of the term "Facebook".
The lawsuit was filed soon after Think Computer Corp. CEO Aaron Greenspan, a classmate of Zuckerberg at Harvard, was denied the right to advertise its upcoming book, Authoritas: One Student’s Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era for trademark infringement.
Think Computer Corp. filed a Petition to Cancel with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) regarding Facebook, Inc.'s registered trademark on the term "Facebook," stating that the term was used by Think prior to Zuckerberg.
Think began using the term "The Facebook" to describe one of the components of its houseSYSTEM student portal at Harvard University in the summer of 2003. It launched the feature on September 19, 2003, several months before thefacebook.com began accepting new users on February 4, 2004. thefacebook.com was later incorporated as Facebook, Inc.
Think's petition asks the USPTO to cancel the Facebook, Inc. trademark for three reasons: priority of use, genericness, and fraud committed on the agency itself.
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