Dfinity Foundation files lawsuit against Meta over infinity logo
The court filing is based not on Meta’s logo using the infinity symbol itself, but rather registering a trademark for use in fields offering similar goods and services. Lawyers for Dfinity Foundation, a Switzerland-based nonprofit behind the Internet Computer blockchain, have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company Meta for trademark infringement over its infinity logo.In a Friday court filing with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Dfinity’s legal team claimed Meta Platforms was registering use of its logo, which also uses the mathematical....
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Dfinity Foundation has dragged Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to court for using an infinity symbol as its logo. Was it deliberate? Or, was Facebook – now rebranded to Meta – just too lazy to do its homework and verify if the logo it used for its modified entity was already taken. Well, it doesn’t matter […]
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, has filed five trademark applications for “Meta Pay.” The filings cover a wide range of cryptocurrency services. The company is renaming Facebook Pay to Meta Pay.
Trademark Applications for Meta Pay
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, filed five trademark applications for “Meta Pay” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week.
Trademark attorney Josh Gerben tweeted explaining Wednesday that, in his opinion, Meta’s applications indicate the company is planning to....
Is the FTC unfairly targeting Meta? Or are they on to something with their monopoly claims? The facts come to light in the FTC lawsuit against the company formerly known as Facebook. Their aim is clear, to block Meta from acquiring Within Unlimited, creators of the popular Supernatural app. “The agency’s complaint notes that according […]
The government watchdog previously filed a lawsuit against the social media giant in 2020 for alleged “anticompetitive conduct” in its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. The United States Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, has filed a lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an attempt to stop the social media giant from “its ultimate goal of owning the entire ‘metaverse’.”In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, the FTC alleged Meta’s and Zuckerberg’s potential acquisition of virtual reality firm Within and its fitness app Supernatural was....
Dfinity has sought to quell criticism over the decentralization and privacy of its Internet Computer protocol. Dfinity, the team behind the Internet Computer protocol, or ICP, has fired back at critics of its decentralization and privacy features in an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit yesterday.The team sought to assure that the project’s foundation does not have control over the majority of voting power, emphasizing that decentralization is a priority for the network as it moves forward.The project aims to replace the public internet with a distributed network of data centers, nodes, subnets....