Facebook has just filed for a trademark on the usage of the word "Facebook" on business cards and, more curiously, "non-magnetically encoded" ID cards among other things. If granted the trademark would protect the usage of the word Facebook in the specified formats, not any actual invention.

So what if Facebook just wants to protect use the word Facebook on business cards? Well, it seems like this patent would cover that and a whole lot more including "business card and identity card design ser [...]

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