THE TRADEMARK DESPUTE OF FACEBOOK GOT SETTLED

June 6, 2009 by: nic

images13 Greenspan’s Silicon Valley company, Think Computer, announced late in the afternoon on the Friday before Memorial Day,that the Facebook’s trademark dispute that led to a rivalry between Harvard schoolmates Mark Zuckerberg and Aaron Greenspan has been quietly resolved and they have agreed to settlement. This luckily just one business day before Facebook trumpeted its $200 million investment from a Russian firm that valued all of Facebook at $10 billion.“I can’t talk about the settlement, but I can tell you everyone worked very hard on the press release,”Greenspan said.”I wish them the best of luck and I’m glad I don’t have to worry about them anymore. And I’m sure the feeling is mutual.”Greenspan described the story in his self-published memoir, “Authoritas: One Student’s Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era.” Greenspan said he decided to challenge the trademark only after Google declined to carry advertising for his book because of its unauthorized use of the term “Facebook.”
In an interview, Greenspan said he didn’t expect Facebook’s announcement about the DST investment, but wasn’t surprised either. “I have my own estimate of what the company should be worth,” he said. “But I think I’ll keep that to myself.”