Facebook Fires Back At Lamebook With A Lawsuit
Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the parody site Lamebook, which had actually sued first seeking an injunction barring further legal action.
Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the parody site Lamebook, which initially surprised the social network and legal experts by proactively suing first, instead of the other way around.
The social network has a long history of proactively suing would-be patent infringers, namely any website that either begins with “Face” or ends with “book.” The maneuvers often start with what lawyers call a “cease-and-desist” letter, then an actual lawsuit.
This time around, the parody site got the first laugh, so to speak.
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