[FM Discuss] Fwd: Facebook sues social media site with ‘book’ in name.

[helen varley jamieson]

  good grief! i wonder if they will come after Booki next ???

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Facebook sues social media site with ‘book’ in name.

Teachbook.com has two employees and fewer than 20 users signed up for
its free Web community. The site has yet to officially launch.

But the Northbrook, Ill.-based company, which provides tools for
teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other
resources, has been thrust into the spotlight by social networking giant
Facebook, which sued the start-up for using “book” in its name.

“We’ve been sitting here scratching our heads for the last couple of
days,” Teachbook’s managing director, Greg Shrader, told the Tribune on
Wednesday. “We’re trying to understand how Facebook, a
multibillion-dollar company, feels this small enterprise in Chicago is
any type of threat.”

http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/08/facebook-says-it-owns-rights-to-the-name-book.html

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