Facebook Faces Yet Another Suit
After coming close to settling a suit by Harvard classmates, (brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their colleague, Divya Narendra), accusing him of stealing their idea back in 2003, when they were all at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, now has another suit slapped on him.
In a petition filed Tuesday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Aaron Greenspan, another former Harvard classmate of Mr. Zuckerberg, is seeking to cancel Facebook’s legal claim to its name says the New York Times.
Mr. Greenspan, claims that Mark Zuckerberg, had no right to trademark the Facebook name in 2005 because the term had been used generically for decades at Harvard University, where they first met. What’s more, Mr. Greenspan maintains he used the term “Face Book” as part of an online service called houseSYSTEM a few months before Mr. Zuckerberg unveiled his now-famous Web site in 2004.
Success does come with its own set of unique problems.
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