There has been a legal battle with another company for some time now over the current name of the user profile on Facebook, “Timeline”. When Facebook first started using the phrase in 2011, an organization called “Timeline Inc.” filed a complaint alleging trademark infringement. Then, in court Social networking The giants fail to justify the “general” use of the term “timeline” and regard it as a “product / service”.

Simply put, initially the case was kind of lost Facebook. The trial between the two companies was scheduled to take place on April 22.

But in between, both the organizations reached an agreement through talks Reached. The timeline acknowledged this in a file submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.

Timeline Inc. Facebook Provides almost the same service as Timeline, which graphically presents various saved events to users and has a specific trademark called “Timelines”.

Now as a result of the agreement between the two institutions Facebook They will be able to continue their activities as before. The company says it will not have a significant impact on the timeline business and will not be an important issue for them.

With this recent settlement Facebook Did not agree to comment. There was no official word from the timeline.