I was aware that Facebook is close to trademarking the term 'face', at least in relation to online social networking and related activities, in the United States. But as far as I know, nobody has yet pointed out that Facebook has already pulled that stunt in the EU, i.e. the union of 27 European member states (which include the UK, Germany, France and Spain). Mark Brooks, an authority in the online dating industry, was kind enough to point me to the filing (screenshot below), which - surprisingly - dates back to May 2004, when Facebook was still in its very early days.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nZjSvqg6nyg/
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