Facebook patents the word "Face"

[Durgiun]

Let's see if I got this right:
Lets say that I decided to make a game called ''My Face'' Facebook could sue me for using the word ''Face'' in the title?

 

[Banana Cannon]

Well, someone might as well one up the bastards and trademark a letter. So if I take the letter 'x' for my own use should I ever have the need to make a website, I could wound the online porno industry so badly,

 

[steeple]

does this mean no more facepalms?

 

[Okysho]

I KNEW IT!! FACEBOOK IS EVIL!! damnit! I'm not surprised this happened, we weren't far from this. Facebook is seriously evil

 

[strangemoose]

i am going to patent the numbers "1" and "2" so when ever a CD has the markings 1 or 2 on their CD's I CAN SUE FOR MILLIONS!

 

[Okysho]

btw I patent the words "the" "a" "game" and "awesome"

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Oh dear, if that's the case I'm facing having to deface a large amount of my FACE vocabulary

I'm sorry, what?

Whoops, please don't sure me

EDIT, might as well get this out now then...

FACEFACEFACE________FACE__________FACEFACEFACE____FACEFACEFACE
FACEFACEFACE______FACEFACE_______FACEFACEFACE____FACEFACEFACE
FACE______________FACE__FACE______FACE______________FACE
FACEFACEFACE____FACE___FACE______FACE_____________FACEFACEFACE
FACEFACEFACE___ FACEFACEFACE_____FACE_____________FACEFACEFACE
FACE____________FACE______FACE____FACE______________FACE
FACE___________FACE________FACE___FACEFACEFACE____FACEFACEFACE
FACE__________FACE__________FACE__FACEFACEFACE____FACEFACEFACE

 

[GeorgW]

I call fake on this. I know the USPTO has made some really stupid decisions over the years, but you'd think they's learn from them! Also, I'd patent sex.

 

[samaugsch]

Why not just patent the word patent, then you can sue anyone who patents anything for patent infringement! It's the perfect system! =D

:O You're a genius!!

 

[mummy162]

I'd patent pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

 

[-Ulven-]

Further proof that the USPTO is a bunch of overpaid undereducated chimps.

This... and also... only in USA folks. So, that means they can't me stop unless I get a warning that STATES that I've crossed the border to US law. Tihi.

I'd patent the word yes. For obvious reasons

Face.

 

[TiefBlau]

I copyright tachyon, because all the money I've spent on geek merchandise should be recovered from the geeks themselves.

Of course, sci-fi writers could pretty much replace "tachyon" with any other particle name and it'd make about as much sense.

 

[Banana Cannon]

F**kbook, lol

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

this is more ridiculous than owning "you're fired". I guess though, that this will depend on how they use their patent.

Paros Hilton owns "That's Hot". 'Nuff Said

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I doubt anyone will get taken to court over it unless they are actually ripping off Facebook. Like calling a website 'Facepages' or whatever, which I guess is kinda justified.

 

[johnman]

I would patent the @ symbol. The worlds email networks would belong to me!

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Damn! I was about to make a website called face to face by computer face. In face.

 

[Blitzkrieg64]

Spoiler

 

[Aidinthel]

From one of OPs sources:

As the fine print of the application says, Facebook's trademark applies only for "telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter" ? or at least, in an odd little exception, "none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars." Go figure.
What that means, basically, is that you can go ahead and keep saying the word "face" in daily life without getting sued by Facebook. Come to think of it, neither Billy Idol ("Eyes Without a Face") nor CBS ("Face the Nation") have anything to worry about, either.
But Facebook's impending trademark could make life pretty difficult for anyone who wants to launch a new social-networking site called, say, FaceWeb, or InterFace, or ? I dunno, Face2Face.

This isn't nearly as big a deal as you guys seem to think. And all this hysteria could have been avoided simply by a little reading. Faith in humanity the Escapist -1.

 

[loc978]

I think I want to copyright "u" used as a shorthand replacement for "you".
...and then I want to mandate that it never be used again, on pain of $3,000,000 lawsuit.

...I really dislike shorthand chatspeak...