- As mentioned by a Barueri-based firm Meta Services, since Zuckerberg’s company changed its name in 2021, it has been wrongly included in more than 100 lawsuits
- An appeals court in Sao Paulo ruled that the U.S. Meta must pay US$20,201 per day if it fails to comply with the decision.
- On Friday, facebook’s parent company Meta won an appeal overturning a previous court ruling.
According to Reuters, Facebook-parent Meta, on Friday won an appeal overturning a previous court ruling that barred it from using its name in Brazil due to confusion with another company.
The process
The Barueri-based firm Meta Services, 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.
Mark Zuckerberg’s tech company was in late February ordered to stop using its name in Brazil within 30 days.
U.S. Meta, formerly called Facebook, changed its name in 2021 in a rebrand that focused on building the “metaverse,” a shared virtual environment.
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The new judgements
Meta won an appeal overturning a previous court ruling on Friday.
In a statement, the Brazilian Meta said it owned the name’s rights in Brazil, adding it believed the law should be followed “regardless of business decisions made by groups that want to operate in our country”.
The company can still appeal the decision.
