Facebook wins a lawsuit in China: No name rip-off of the social media giant

Facebook, the social media giant has supposedly won a rare lawsuit in China! Yes, China! The same place where Apple had no chance of winning theirs. Facebook have been victorious in a rare copyright victory in China after a Beijing court dismissed a local company's attempt to register "face book" as a separate trademark.In the ruling that was out, the company that registered for a trade mark had in fact violated moral principle according to the court ruling with "obvious intention to duplicate and copy from another high-profile trademark." The decision was come to a conclusion back in April itself but due to little or null coverage of news regarding this, you might now have read or heard about this anywhere. Now you do!

A Chinese company wanted to use the "face book" name to market food and drink, from canned vegetables, potato chips to coffee, tea, candy and juices. It registered the trademark in 2011. It was approved in the preliminary status. The American social media giants had challenged the decision in court. China's trademark laws are often seen as being overly lax but somehow this time it has entirely gone in Facebook's favor. If you didn't know Facebook is banned by the Chinese government in the majority of its nation.

Apple lost a similar trademark dispute last week, when a court ruled that companies selling handbags and leather goods would be allowed to continue using the name "IPHONE" to market their goods. This was due to the fact that the court felt that Apple did not put enough effort as claimants to retain the proprietary "iPhone" branding which made the court rule in favor of the local entities that were trying to register for the same. And now, it'd be pretty evident that some of the products might come out of "iPhone" branding in China.