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Everyone besides me probably already knew, but "Wall has been trademarked by Facebook" ? Wow.

I was surprised that they list 32665 with their trademarks (I had to search to figure out that was the FBOOK SMS short code). Can you trademark a number? I thought that's why Intel ended up with the "Pentium" instead of "586".

You can claim trademark on anything you like. You can threaten legal action over the claimed mark. You can start litigation over the claimed mark. These facts do not mean you have grounds to win.

Registering a mark gives you better protection and drastically increases your odds of winning against an alleged infringer. Registering numbers, AFAIK, still is not allowed.

Ahh.. okay. For some reason the claimed vs. registered didn't click here for me. Thanks - that makes sense to me.

Indeed and they take it very seriously.

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