Further to our post on Thursday 11 June, Facebook has announced that it is allowing Facebook page administrators to request usernames for trade marks previously blocked by them.

It appears that the first applicant for a trade mark held by a number of people (in different classes or jurisdictions) is more likely to be successful, although Facebook reserves the right to remove or reallocate a name for any reason.

This entry was posted by Adam Trumble on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm and is filed under Australian Trademarks, Domain Names, New Zealand Trademarks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.