Aaron Greenspan Settles Trademark Dispute With Facebook
May 23rd 2009 2:02amI first heard of Aaron Greenspan back in December 2007 when he emailed me asking for clarification a few statements related to an 02138 Magazine article that I had covered at the end of November of that same year. Little did I know that Greenspan was in the midst of preparing to launch his [...]I first heard of Aaron Greenspan back in December 2007 when he emailed me asking for clarification a few statements related to an 02138 Magazine article that I had covered at the end of November of that same year Little did I know that Greenspan was in the midst of preparing to launch his own bookAuthoritaswhich was later sent to me in April At that point in time Greenspan attempted to begin promoting his book on Googleonly to be prevented from doing so. Around the time of his book launchAaron Greenspan filed a petition to cancel the trademark for the name “Facebook”since he was essentially the originator of the name At the time I wasn’t sure if it was simply buzz that was being used to sell more copies of his book or a legitimate attempt at revoking Facebook’s trademark It took six more months but by October of 2008 Aaron Greenspan was on the war path and the board who had reviewed the argument presented the following statement“Upon reviewing the amended pleadingthe Board finds that petitioner has sufficientlyalbeit minimallypled a claim of fraud in the procurement of the registration.”
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