A social media pioneer tried to convince a US judge there’s a big mistake in how Facebook Inc came to acquire the rights to the word “face” more than a decade ago.
Andrew David Bamforth, the co-founder of Faceparty, a British site that enjoyed a brief heyday in the early 2000s, claims he was mentally incapacitated for 12 years, including in 2008 when he signed a trademark rights agreement that Mark Zuckerberg’s company relied on to build the world’s biggest social network.
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