Facebook has lost an attempt to end a trademark infringement suit over its use of the name "Timeline." Bloomberg reports that US District Judge John W. Darrah denied Facebook's attempt to derail its case with Timelines, Inc., with the judge writing that the social network had failed to show that the disputed term was "generic or merely descriptive."
Timelines, Inc. filed its lawsuit against Facebook back in 2011, a week after the social network revealed Timeline. One of the sites and services run by Timelines, Inc. is Timelines.com itself, a site that offers an image-based timeline of historical events. The company has been issued several federal trademarks — including one for the name Timelines itself — but Facebook had argued they...
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