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Immediate Action Required To Try To Prevent Facebook Username Squatting -- Needs To Be Done By Friday, June 12, 2009 |
August 20, 2009
Previously published on June 11, 2009
Facebook has just announced that beginning Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. EDT, Facebook users will be allowed for the first time to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages (facebook.com/yourname). However, Facebook is also providing trademark owners the chance to prevent others from registering usernames that contain trademarks owned by third parties. This means that trademark owners will have a very short period of time (until this Friday, June 12) to provide notice to Facebook of trademark registrations which may preempt others from registering them as Facebook usernames (process begins on Saturday, June 13).
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