Amit Chowdhry | September 1, 2011 | 328 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Facebook, Lamebook

Facebook and Lamebook have made a settlement. Lamebook is in Austin, Texas based website that contains funny status messages. Lamebook retained the rights to keep its name and Facebook-like logo. However Lamebook had to write “Lamebook is not sponsored by or affiliated with Facebook” at the bottom of the website. [Gawker]
Amit Chowdhry | November 23, 2010 | 956 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Bill McGeveran, Facebook, Lamebook, University of Minnesota

Facebook has shut down the Facebook Page and the Like buttons on Lamebook.com. This is happening because there was a trademark dispute between Facebook.com and Lamebook.com. Lamebook filed a declaratory judgment complaint against Facebook and they responded by filing a trademark infringement case.

Amit Chowdhry | November 5, 2010 | 853 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Facebook, Jonathan Standefer, Lamebook, Matthew Genitempo

Lamebook is a parody website where people share funny status messages and photos from Facebook. The website was launched in April 2009 by Jonathan Standefer and Matthew Genitempo. Lamebook filed a declaratory judgment complaint against Facebook. This is in response to a C&D that was sent to Lamebook in March 2010 from a Facebook counsel.
