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Facebook To Allow Reservation Of Trademarks
June 11, 2009
Michael "Mike" D. Hobbs Jr.
On Tuesday, June 9, Facebook, Inc., the wildly successful social networking website company, publicly announced that beginning
Saturday, June 13th at 12:01 a.m. U.S. EDT, users of the Facebook website will be allowed for the first time to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages (facebook.com/yourname).
Facebook, Inc. has created an online form for rights owners interested in preventing their trademarks from being registered as usernames by Facebook users.
Trademark owners can reserve their trademark on the Facebook platform by submitting relevant information to Facebook, Inc. through Facebook’s trademark protection contact form.
If you have further questions or concerns about protecting your trademark on Facebook through this process, please contact Michael Hobbs at or 404.885.3330.