Facebook users can interact with posts on Facebook by selecting the “like” button icon to “like” a post.
...Complainant’s community standards for Facebook expressly prohibit users from engaging in
inauthentic behavior and using Facebook assets to mislead users “[a]bout the popularity of Facebook or
Instagram content or assets.” ...
2023-01-17 - Case Details
Eiseres eindigt haar feitelijke analyse met de stelling dat de groeiende naam en faam van FACEBOOK groeit en daarmee ook de wereldwijde mediadekking van het bedrijf en de Facebook website. In tal van mediapublicaties wordt Facebook besproken en wordt er naar Facebook verwezen. ...Voorts stelt Verweerder dat Facebook pas op 1 februari 2006 het Benelux-merk FACEBOOK heeft geregistreerd. Facebook biedt inmiddels ook haar diensten in de Nederlandse taal aan op zogenaamde subdomeinen.
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2009-04-15 - Case Details
No.
FACEBOOK
U.S.
2005-02-24
2006-07-25
3,122,052
FACEBOOK
U.S.
2006-06-29
2010-11-23
3,881,770
FACEBOOK
U.S.
2010-10-07
2013-11-26
4,441,540
The Complainant also owns international trademark registration and European Union Trade Mark registrations for the Facebook Mark, some of which are shown below.
...Complainant
The disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the FACEBOOK Mark
The disputed domain name, which adds the descriptive terms “security” and “alert” to the Complainant’s Facebook Mark, is confusingly similar to the Complainant’s FACEBOOK Mark. ...
2022-01-25 - Case Details
The Complainant also owns numerous domain names consisting of or including the term “facebook”. The worldwide renown of the Complainant’s FACEBOOK trademark has been confirmed by previous UDRP panels (e.g., Facebook, Inc. v. Mirza Azim,
WIPO Case No. D2016-0950; Facebook, Inc. v. Sleek Names, SL Names, VSAUDHA,
WIPO Case No. D2015-0547; Facebook, Inc. v. He Wenming,
WIPO Case No. ...
2018-03-02 - Case Details
The Complainant owns various trademarks relating to its Facebook platform including
1. Various “Facebook” trademarks (the “Facebook Trademark”):
- International Registration No. 1075807 for FACEBOOK, registered on July 16, 2010;
- European Union Trade Mark No. 005585518 for FACEBOOK, registered on May 25, 2011;
and
2. ...Moreover, the use of such tools to download content from the
Complainant’s Facebook platform may put the security of Facebook users at risk, as content scraped from
the Facebook platforms may be stored and used for unauthorized purposes by third parties.
...
2025-05-13 - Case Details
D2014-0657.
Further, for the disputed domain name <facebook-skype.com>, which contains Complainant’s FACEBOOK
Mark and adds the additional “SKYPE Mark, which is owned by Microsoft. ...See WIPO Overview
3.0, at Section 2.9; see also Facebook, Inc. et al. v. John Obeye, WIPO Case No. D2017-2106; Facebook
Inc. v. Yumei Luo, WIPO Case No. ...
2023-01-26 - Case Details
In addition to its extensive common law rights in
the FACEBOOK mark, the Complainant owns numerous registrations protecting the FACEBOOK mark in the
United States and around the world.
...Factual Background
On October 28, 2021, the Complainant, formerly known as “Facebook, Inc.,” changed its name to “Meta Platforms, Inc.”. The Complainant operates the world-famous Facebook social networking website and mobile application Facebook has more than one billi...
...
2022-05-24 - Case Details
The Complainant is the owner of numerous trademark registrations for the FACEBOOK mark around the world. For example: United States Registration No. 3041791 – FACEBOOK, registered on January 10, 2006; United States Registration No. 3122052 – FACEBOOK, registered on July 25, 2006; Chinese Registration No. 5251162 – FACEBOOK, registered on September 21, 2009; Chinese Registration No. 6389501 – FACEBOOK, registered on March 28, 2010; International trademark Registration No. 1075094 – FACEBOOK, registered on July 16, 2010, and more.
...The Panel finds that the disputed domain names integrates the Complainant's FACEBOOK and FACEBOOK MESSENGER well-known mark or an obvious misspell of the FABECOOK or FACEBOOK MESSENGER well known mark in their entirety, as a dominant element.
...
2016-01-13 - Case Details
D2015-1975 (“the Complainant has gained rights in the FACEBOOK MESSENGER mark”); Facebook, Inc. v. Xiamen eName Network Co., Ltd / Shawn, Wang,
WIPO Case No. D2015-1339 (“the Complainant has unregistered trademark rights in FACEBOOK MESSENGER”).
The Panel finds that the Domain Names are confusingly similar to the Complainant’s FACEBOOK trademark and the Complainant’s figurative FACEBOOK trademark. The Domain Names incorporate the entire FACEBOOK trademark, the figurative trademark incorporates the word mark FACEBOOK, and the FACEBOOK trademark is easily recognizable within the Domain Names. ...
2018-12-27 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Facebook, Inc. v. He Wenming
Case No. DCC2013-0004
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Facebook, Inc. of Menlo Park, California, United States of America (“US”), represented by Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP, France.
...The Complainant Facebook has registered numerous trademarks in the term FACEBOOK to protect its interests around the world, including:
- FACEBOOK – Chinese trademark number 5251162 filed on March 30, 2006;
- FACEBOOK – Chinese trademark number 6389501 filed on November 20, 2007;
- FACEBOOK – Australian trademark number 1154693 filed on December 22, 2006;
- FACEBOOK – Australian trademark number 1211165 filed on November 19, 2007;
- FACEBOOK – International trademark number 1075094 registered on July 16, 2010.
...
2014-03-07 - Case Details
In this case, FACEBOOK, directly followed by “business” and “-for-business” can be seen to refer to the Complainant’s special web site “Facebook for Business”. ...The fact that the Complainant’s trademark FACEBOOK is widely known throughout the world, has also been concluded in several other UDRP cases, such as Facebook, Inc. v. ...
2016-02-04 - Case Details
Moreover, Complainant has demonstrated to own and to operate numerous domain names relating to its
FACEBOOK trademark, e.g. since 1997 the domain name used to run Complainant’s
Facebook website at “www.facebook.com”.
...Factual Background
Moreover, Complainant has demonstrated to own and to operate numerous domain names relating to its FACEBOOK trademark, e.g. since 1997 the domain name used to run Complainant’s Facebook website at “www.facebook.com”.
...
2026-01-30 - Case Details
TMA732799, FACEBOOK, registered on January 21, 2009;
− European Union Trade Mark No. 004535381, FACEBOOK, registered on June 22, 2011; and
− International Trademark No. 1075094, FACEBOOK, registered on July 16, 2010.
...Complainant
The Complainant contends that since its launch in 2004, Facebook rapidly developed considerable renown and goodwill worldwide and that its FACEBOOK trademark is currently one of the most famous online trademarks in the world with the FACEBOOK brand ranked 8 in Interbrand's Best Global Brands report. ...
2018-12-04 - Case Details
The Complainant is the owner of the following trademark registrations for the sign “FACEBOOK” (the
“FACEBOOK trademark”):
− the United States trademark FACEBOOK with registration No. 3041791, registered on January 10, 2006
for services in International Classes 35 and 38;
− the International trademark FACEBOOK with registration No. 1075094, registered on July 16, 2010 for
goods and services in International Classes 9, 35, 36, 38, 41, 42 and 45;
− the European Union trademark FACEBOOK with registration No. 005585518, registered on May 25, 2011
for services in International Classes 35, 41, 42 and 45;
− the Thai trademark FACEBOOK with registration No. 680059, registered on December 16, 2008 for
services in International Class 38; and
− the Thai trademark FACEBOOK with registration No. 768190, registered on October 9, 2012 for goods and
services in International Class 35.
...The disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant’s FACE and FACEBOOK trademarks.
The associated website has a very similar appearance to the Complainant’s Facebook social-media platform
and its source code contains a reference to “facebook”. ...
2023-01-19 - Case Details
The FACEBOOK Mark is currently one of the most famous online trademarks in the world. In 2021, the Facebook brand ranked 15th in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report.
...The FACEBOOK Mark is clearly recognizable as the leading element of the Disputed Domain Names. Complainant submits that the combination of the FACEBOOK Mark together with such descriptive terms does not prevent a finding of confusing similarity between the Disputed Domain Names and the FACEBOOK Mark. ...
2021-12-28 - Case Details
United States trademark number 3122052 FACEBOOK registered on July 25, 2006.
Vietnamese trademark number 128158 FACEBOOK registered on June 26, 2009.
...It accepts that the Complainant owns the registered trademark FACEBOOK but then asserts that "no one can say that Facebook!360 is 'Facebook'". In the Panel's view the argument maintained by the Respondent cannot succeed.
...
2016-06-21 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Facebook, Inc. v. Perfect Privacy, LLC / Kypros Kesidis
Case No. D2021-0355
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Facebook, Inc., United States of America (“United States”), represented by Tucker Ellis LLP, United States of America.
...Complainant
The Complainant submits that it owns registered trade mark rights as set out above for its FACEBOOK trade mark and unregistered rights in the FACEBOOK PAY mark. Essentially, it says that the disputed domain name incorporates its FACEBOOK mark and replaces the element “pay” in its FACEBOOK PAY mark with the word “payments” and is as a result confusingly similar to its trade mark rights for the purposes of the first element of the Policy.
...
2021-04-28 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Facebook, Inc. v. Andre Schneider / DomCollect AG
Case No. D2013-1183
1. The Parties
Complainant is Facebook, Inc. of Menlo Park, California, United States of America, represented by Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP, France.
...Identical or Confusingly Similar
It is undisputed that Complainant has rights in the FACEBOOK trademark.
Each disputed domain name incorporates the FACEBOOK trademark in its entirety, most of them adding either a prefix or a suffix. ...
2013-09-23 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Facebook Inc. v. Morgan Pasco, RealEstate Business
Case No. D2018-0575
1. The Parties
Complainant is Facebook Inc. of Menlo Park, California, United States of America, represented by Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP, France.
...It appears that each of the disputed domain names was registered on May 25, 2015 and that each is used to redirect visitors to a Facebook page that appears to be Respondent’s personal Facebook page, which displays a link to another Facebook page apparently used for Respondent’s real estate business.
...
2018-05-09 - Case Details
It resolves to a website offering downloadable
software that permits the public to view the content of Facebook platform users – “Facebook Story Viewer”
(the “Website”). According to the Website, by entering the profile link or username of the Facebook page to
be targeted into the downloaded software, users of Respondent’s software will purportedly have the ability to
“view Facebook stories anonymously” and “without being detected.” They may also save the stories for
offline viewing (e.g., mobile, tablet, computer). The Website uses the FACEBOOK Mark prominently in
bolded blue lettering throughout the Website. The hue of blue looks to be the same as what Complainant
uses for its FACEBOOK Mark – “Facebook Blue”.
...
2026-03-13 - Case Details