Facebook Must Face Trademark Trial Over ‘Timeline’ Feature
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Facebook Inc., owner of the world’s largest social-networking service, lost bid to end a trademark-infringement lawsuit over its use of “timeline” and related terms.
Timelines Inc. started a website in 2009 that lets users create chronologies tracing historical events such as wars, sporting events and advances in science. It sued Facebook for infringement and unfair competition in September 2011, a week after the social-network announced it was adding a “timeline” feature to its user pages.