Facebook recently has witnessed to being actively involved in efforts to get registered trademarks in the United States and other countries and regions for a good number of product and services as it offers and intends to offer in the future. In an efforts to get a trademark for credits, its virtual payment system it is making effort to get exclusive right to the use of the term “Facebook Developer Garage”.

Facebook Developer Garage events are developer meetings organized around the globe and termed as place to, “explore, getting gritty, tinker, experiment, and test out ideas for Facebook Platform”.

Facebook has filed trademark in three different classes and one of those classes is sponsoring and organizing online and live exhibitions and events in the field of software development and other two classes in the document has been classified as following.

International Class 009: Computer software development tools; computer software for use as an application programming interface (API); application programming interface (API) for computer software which facilitates online services for social networking, building social networking applications and for allowing data retrieval, upload, download, access and management; computer software to enable uploading, downloading, accessing, posting, displaying, tagging, blogging, streaming, linking, sharing or otherwise providing electronic media or information via computer and communication networks.

International Class 042: Computer services, namely, creating virtual communities for registered users to organize groups and events, participate in discussions, and engage in social, business and community networking; computer services, namely, hosting electronic facilities for others for organizing and conducting meetings, events and interactive discussions via communication networks; application service provider (ASP) featuring software to enable or facilitate the uploading, downloading, streaming, posting, displaying, blogging, linking, sharing or otherwise providing electronic media or information over communication networks; providing an online network service that enables users to transfer personal identity data to and share personal identify data with and among multiple websites; providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphics and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software applications for social networking, creating a virtual community, and transmission of audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; computer services in the nature of customized web pages featuring user-defined or specified information, personal profiles, audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data.