Court orders Meta to cease using name in Brazil
The Hindu
A Sao Paulo-court ordered Facebook-parent Meta to stop using its name in Brazil within 30 days.
A Sao Paulo-court ordered Facebook-parent Meta to stop using its name in Brazil within 30 days, after a local computer services provider with the same name filed a lawsuit saying it has been damaged by third parties confusing the companies.
The decision is from Wednesday and was reported late evening on Thursday by Brazilian newspaper Valor.
Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The decision can be appealed by Mark Zuckerberg's tech company.
The Barueri-based firm Meta Servicos, which registered its brand in the late 2000s with Brazils's National Institute for Intellectual Property, said in the judicial process that since Zuckerberg's company changed its name in 2021, it had been wrongly included in more than 100 lawsuits and had Instagram profiles disabled for supposedly impersonating another.
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