Facebook allows personalised url’s
12/06/2009

Facebook, the popular social networking website, has announced that from 13 June 2009 it will allow its users to create personalised URLs (Web addresses) for their Facebook pages. Until now, the addresses have been numbers rather than names.

Trade mark owners will be able to prevent their trade mark from being registered as a username by submitting details of their trade mark registration to Facebook, Inc through its trade mark protection contact form, available at: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
For more information visit the Facebook Blog at http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130 and the FAQ page at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=896
Owners of trade marks are encouraged to take steps like this to reduce the risk of future infringements.

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Steven Yeates
Partner
Adams & Adams
steven@adamsadams.co.za