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Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by salesbloo: 12:08am On Oct 29, 2021 |
"Meta" is the new brand name for Facebook Company. Also "Meta" means "Three" in Yoruba language popularly spoken in South West Nigeria and other parts of the world. Suppose you (or your client) is in the cupcake business and decides to purchase and brand the domain name “cupcakes.com.” Can this be done? I don’t mean, could you buy the URL? (The answer is “no”: it’s apparently owned by NA Media and used as a portal for dessert, food, baking and related sites.) My question is: could you or your client claim “cupcakes.com” as a service mark and thereby prevent others from using anything confusingly similar in connection with their own cupcake businesses? The answer begins with the principle that, in general, the law does not allow a company to claim as its proprietary mark a generic term, that is, a word that identifies the type of product or service involved, such as “Software” used to identify a software product or “Apple” used for fruit (as opposed to as “Apple” used as a trademark for computer technology: such arbitrary uses of words are highly protectable). Since everyone deserves the right to accurately identify the type of goods or services it sells, to allow a single company to claim trademark rights to a generic term would impoverish the language and unfairly hamper competition. This applies not only to words that begin life as generic terms, but also to words that begin life as brand names but are appropriated by consumers as another word for the types of goods/services they were coined to brand . This is what happened to the terms “escalator,” “cellophane,” and “aspirin,” which were originally created to serve as marks, but which became so widely used to refer simply to that type of good (any elevated moving stairway, any plastic wrap, any acetylsalicylic acid painkiller) that they lost their ability to brand. So, could you or your client appropriate “cupcakes.com,” not just as a commercial web domain, but also as a protectable service mark? Probably not, say two recent cases. Last July the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals turned back Hotels.com’s attempt to register as its service mark the term “hotels.com.” The company had argued that even if the term “hotel” is generic for hotel information and bookings, the addition of a dot-com suffix removed that onus and should permit trademarking. Not so, said the Court. The mere addition of a top level domain (dot-com, dot-org, dot-net, etc.) doesn’t remove the taint of genericness from the term. A similar issue was resolved this winter. Dial-A-Mattress had attempted to register the “Mattress.com” domain name as its service mark. The company had argued that only “online mattress stores” was truly generic for its particular services, and therefore that its “Mattress.com” DN was not generic. Wrong, repeated the Federal Circuit. “Any term that the relevant public understands to refer to the genus of ‘online retail store services in the field of mattresses, beds and bedding’ is generic.” Nor was the Court persuaded that it was wrong for the Trademark Office to refuse registration. In short, Mattress.com joined hotels.com (and law.com, and several others) in the ash heap of generic non-marks. In short, if you use a word or phrase generically in identifiers for your products or services, not only can’t you claim that word itself as a proprietary brand name, but you do no better by adding an indistinct suffix like dot-com. So for anyone hoping to appropriate a generic term as its trademark or service mark by adding dot-com (or other relatively indistinct supplementary words), it’s back to the drawing board to find a mark distinctive enough to identify a viable business. https://bloomeet.com/copyright-facebook-new-name-and-yoruba-word-meta/
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Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Seakay(m): 12:15am On Oct 29, 2021 |
@OP, Na Only God fit help you so. ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Hateandthunder: 12:23am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Look at the people that call themselves 'highly educated'. Embarrassing 4 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Tinubuadvocate: 12:31am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Those people from that region will commit suicide over this development. Very bitternes people. 6 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Guestlander: 12:35am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Orita meta abidi yakata ti ndamu alejo. |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Mystic216: 1:06am On Oct 29, 2021 |
So daft and myopic people Hahahahaha |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by josh123(m): 7:58am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Alpha, beta, meta ...... 2 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by suffering: 8:34am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Like another user claimed “99.99% Yoruba with a .1% margin for error.” |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Bighead9: 8:45am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Hateandthunder: E pain this man say, the owner of Facebook no change the name to Ibo Amaka ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by kilojoDesigns: 8:46am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Metaphysis? Metamorphosis? Meta is originally Greek and has been used as a prefix in English language to create new words It means transcending, or advanced 4 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Bighead9: 8:57am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Tinubuadvocate: You know them too well. They are all pained ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 5 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by paltielx: 8:57am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Metaverse it's shortened to meta |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Walkee: 9:23am On Oct 29, 2021 |
What's this one trying to say? |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Tinubuadvocate: 10:17am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Yes bro those people are evil. Bighead9: 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Danjikanbauchi: 12:56pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Tinubuadvocate:I can imagine " very bitterness people" Useless and bloody illiterate. 2 Likes |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by care4you: 2:07pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
illiterates are busy celebrating nothing while Mark is busy making money. after consuming 10litres of oil this is what you came up with? ndi ofemmanuu! 1 Like |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by KosiGee(m): 2:19pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Tinubuadvocate: Even you ![]() I didn’t expect this from you. This is beyond inferiority complex. Metaphor Metaphysics etc Meta…superior and at a higher level. |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by KosiGee(m): 2:21pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Danjikanbauchi: ![]() ![]() ![]() Even Mc Oluomo will be embarrassed. |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Danjikanbauchi: 2:22pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
KosiGee:walahi no be lie |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Nobody: 2:48pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Just as Alphabet is to Google, so is Metaverse to Facebook. Get it? |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Semaj77(m): 4:57pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
josh123: Meta is not in the Greek alphabet Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta , Epsilon....... Although he's wrong but you're also wrong |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by josh123(m): 6:34pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Semaj77:i know bro, I wrote it that way |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by otomatic(m): 7:33pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
paltielx: Excellent. It shows you are very well informed. Facebook itself explained that it is Metaverse because of the direction/ecosystem the company is trying to build. Even on the stock exchange, the ticker is to be changed from FB to MVRS. I wonder how that Metaverse, shortened to Meta, became a Yoruba word. |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by DesChyko: 8:57pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
Enlightenment is just a click away. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meta Strange to even think remotely that 'meta' in that case is a Yoruba word ![]() |
Re: Copyright: Facebook Company's New Name And Yoruba Word "META" by Badmusthomas(m): 10:20pm On Oct 29, 2021 |
The only thing Nigerian join hands to do is to criticize the government, but they never which themselves good things ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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