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Intellectual Property

Jun. 24, 2011

Lamebook Trademark Case Against Facebook Will Be Decided in Texas

A Texas-based company that runs a website in which users submit amusing status updates and comments from Facebook Inc. will get to fight a trademark infringement battle against the social networking company in the Lone Star State.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A Texas-based company that runs a website in which users submit amusing status updates and comments from Facebook Inc. will get to fight a trademark infringement battle against the social networking company in the Lone Star State.

Facebook, represented by Cooley LLP, dismissed its complaint against Lamebook LLC, filed in the Northern District of California, on Tuesday, a week after U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of the Wes...

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