Facebook: personalized URLs and trademark protection
- June 12, 2009 5:52 AM
On 11 June 2009 the International Trademark Association informed its members on upcoming developments regarding the use of trademarks on social networking websites.
Facebook, Inc., a social networking website company based in the United States, publicly announced that beginning Saturday, 13 June 2009 at 12:01 a.m. U.S. EDT, users of the Facebook website will be allowed for the first time to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages (facebook.com/yourname).
Facebook, Inc. has created an online form for rights owners interested in preventing their trademarks from being registered as usernames by Facebook users. Trademark owners can reserve their trademark on the Facebook platform by submitting relevant information to Facebook, Inc. through their trademark protection contact form, available at http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights.
For questions or concerns, please see Facebook’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page, available at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=896.
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