Facebook and StudiVZ Engage in War of Words

Over the weekend, the Financial Times reported that Facebook had “filed an intellectual property lawsuit against a German company that it has accused of running a ‘knock-off’ of the social networking website.” The suit claims that StudiVZ copied “the look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ is one of the most popular social networks currently in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and definitely looks strikingly similar to the Facebook design.

The filing of the suit resulted in a prompt response from the StudiVZ team:

Because we have not been served with the complaint, studiVZ cannot comment in detail about the content of the claims.

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