Does Facebook has Trademark on the word "Like" ?

11 years ago

Yes, Facebook has a trademark. Before evaluating what you can do on your website, you may want to review FB's filings at United States Patent and Trademark Office

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Dustin Lyle

11 years ago

Although they have a trademark on the "like" button, How and when you use it for your own site can only infringe on Facebooks rights, if it is believed that your visitors think that your site is in some way affiliated with Facebook due to the Like button.

Most trademark applications, and thus trademarks, are too far reaching in their verbiage to be held up in Court.

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ttenner 11 years ago

I believe it does:

LIKE - Reviews & Brand Information - Facebook Inc. Palo Alto, CA - Serial Number: 85020068

Facebook Inc.

PS: But that might be only for the Symbol/Logo but not for the actual Word Mark
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sangawedartha

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dustin Lyle

Although they have a trademark on the "like" button, How and when you use it for your own site can only infringe on Facebooks rights, if it is believed that your visitors think that your site is in some way affiliated with Facebook due to the Like button.

Most trademark applications, and thus trademarks, are too far reaching in their verbiage to be held up in Court.

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AdrianDanut 11 years ago

They don't have a trademark on the WORD like. Amazon also uses like buttons. With a different design of course.
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100KAffiliateManager

11 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

Yes, Facebook has a trademark. Before evaluating what you can do on your website, you may want to review FB's filings at United States Patent and Trademark Office

Very useful site, thanks for sharing. One thing to note for anyone using the site, don't forget to select 'Search For Trademarks' if using the search box on the top of the page. Only downside that I can see is that you could get stuck for quite a while looking at various trademarks - just out of curiosity

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Jesus Perez

11 years ago

If they do, my heart goes out to all the teenage girls that are about to be served cease and desist notices 33 times per day.

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ikhwanudin

11 years ago

I did not know Facebook owns the word "like". If I can not use that word, I may use something else. You can use the word "awesome!" maybe.

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ttenner 11 years ago

A word Mark is different then a Symbol/Logo Mark according to the site references I gave they don't own the Word Mark for like ...

I cannot imagine that this can be accepted as a Trademark ...
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SDStudio

11 years ago

interesting.... mark is trademarking the word "face" and now
"book" and it looks he is trying to trademark the word "like", I'm sure the next thing he can come up with is the word "dislike" lolz

I’m sorry, I couldn't resist

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J Bold

11 years ago

yeah they may have trademarked it, but as someone said Amazon uses a "like" button as well.

So it would appear the trademark is somewhat limited in practice.

Trademarks can get way out of hand and uber ridiculous on the internet.

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Gengis

11 years ago

I think you can still use the word but do some research so that you won't get into any trouble.

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RachelLily

11 years ago

I think they dont have a trademark on the word like. it doesnt even have a trademark on the word "Book" but i think they have sued others for using it.

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tomerep

11 years ago

Of course you can use it, facebook doesnt have trademark over it. as rachel said, they did sue some sites for having to use "Book" even though they dont have trademark over that word.

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Malcolm Thomas

11 years ago

I would think so but to be honest I'm not really sure. I would try googling a question like that.

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