"Facebook" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

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PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et alNovember 2, 2007November 6, 2009
Plaintiff PA Advisors, LLC allege that Defendants infringed no U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067 entitled "System and Method for Generating Personalized User Profiles and for Utilizing the Generated User Profiles to Perform Adaptive Internet Searches."
Connectu, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc. et alMarch 28, 2007November 3, 2009
ConnectU is suing Facebook for business torts and unfair business practices.
Price v. Facebook, Inc.July 31, 2009October 22, 2009
Click Fraud case against Facebook
The Facebook, Inc. v. Connectu, LLC et alMarch 9, 2007October 19, 2009
Plaintiffs Facebook, Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg alleges that Defendants ConnectU, Inc., Cameron WInklevoss, Tyler Vinklevoss, Divya Narendra, Pacific Northwest Software, Inc., Winston Wiliams, Wayne Change and David Gucwa circumvented the Terms of Use for the Facebook website by illicitly employing the user IDs and passwords of friends to mask Defendants' real identities, accessed the Facebook website to steal information and data for commercial purposes, and advertised to and solicited members to join www.connectu.com.
Facebook, Inc. v. Studivz, Ltd et alJuly 18, 2008September 14, 2009
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that Defendants StudiVZ Ltd. ran a knockoff of Facebook's website by copying the look, feel, features and services of facebook.com
Facebook, Inc. v. Guerbuez et alAugust 14, 2008April 16, 2009
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that Defendants improperly and illegally accessed Facebook's computers and user information to conduct vast spamming campaigns targeted at Facebook users.
i.think inc v. Minekey Inc et alFebruary 1, 2008October 21, 2008
Plaintiff i.think inc. alleged that Defendants Minekey, Inc. and Delip Andra infringed on Plaintiff's service mark by using the iThink mark in connection with online opinion polls on Internet networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Friendster.
Hasbro, Inc. v. RJ Softwares et alJuly 24, 2008July 28, 2008
Plaintiff Hasbro, Inc. alleged that Defendants RJ Softwares, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla infringed on Plaintiff's trademark and copyright by creating and publicly displaying an online game that copies the essential and original elements of the Scrabble board game and promoting and profiting from it in commerce in the United States under the confusingly similar Scrabulous name.
Abrams v. Facebook, Inc.October 22, 2007July 17, 2008
Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Facebook, Inc. transmits or permits to be transmitted unauthorized text messages to the wireless devices of consumers nationwide.
CROSS ATLANTIC CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC. v. FACEBOOK, INC. et alJuly 3, 2007July 16, 2008
Plaintiff Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Inc. alleges that defendant Facebook, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,518,629 B2 entitled "System for creating a community for users with common interests to interact in."
Facebook, Inc. v. John Does 1-10June 28, 2007April 30, 2008
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that someone using Internet Protocol address 216.127.50.20 accessed Facebook's website with an automated script in an attempt gain unauthorized access to Facebook's friend-finder functionality.
Facebook, Inc. v. Wallace et alFebruary 24, 2009 
Lane et al v. Facebook, Inc. et alAugust 12, 2008 
Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant Facebook, Inc. and Defendants Facebook Beacon Activated Affiliates (i.e., Blockbuster, Inc., Fandango, Inc., Hotwire, Inc., STA Travel, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., Zappos.com, Inc. and Gamefly, Inc.) violated their privacy