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**IG_urban**

http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/08/facebooks-now-trying-to-trademark-the-word-face.html

Facebook, which has gone after sites with the word “book” in their names, is also trying to trademark the word “face,” according to court documents.

**Ediin**

EDIT: Facepalm actually has the word ''face'' in it, which means I'll get hunted by Facebook lawyers.

**Lord_Inquisitor**

Hahahaha that is the most fabulous thing I think I have ever heard

**Commander Endova**

It's okay. Maybe if this goes through my grandpa will stop referring to things like "MyBookFaceSpace" and "That Devil-Magic Internet Box."

**Lord_Inquisitor**

With respect, Commander, *salutes* I'm very much hoping that your grandfather KEEPS saying things like "That Devil-Magic Internet Box", because that is an amazingly awesome phrase.

**Kilkrazy**

Someone should trademark the letter F and the word ace then sue F™ace™Boo™k™.

Boo and Ook are already trademarked.

**WarOne**

Kilkrazy wrote:Someone should trademark the letter F and the word ace then sue F™ace™Boo™k™.

Boo and Ook are already trademarked.

Trademarking names would be funnier. Imagine having entire segments of the population change their name to something else simply because Bob and John and Martha are all taken and they force people to change their names or give them money.

Funny capitalist society. In Soviet Russia, everyone would be named worker, or re-education camp volunteer, or dead.

**Ediin**

WarOne wrote:=Funny capitalist society. In Soviet Russia, everyone would be named worker, or re-education camp volunteer, or dead.

Or unneccesarily rich party leader.

**SagesStone**

Ediin wrote:Or unneccesarily rich party leader.

Don't they keep a real name?

Stupidity like this doesn't really surprise me anymore, just disappoint.
Maybe it's time to go patent the act of breathing.