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"The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Power.com lawsuit against Facebook has been dismissed by a US District Judge.\nIf you haven't been following the data ownership scuffle, it's been a back-and-fourth m\u00E9lee with Facebook first filing suit against Power.com for allegedly using Facebook user data (primarily a member's user name and password) without authorization. Then in July, Power.com counter-sued Facebook with claims of unfair competition, and stopped supporting the site as part of their social media aggregating service.\nToday the Power.com counter-suit has been dismissed, though a Facebook representative assures us that their original legal matter against Power.com is still pending. Power.com, however, isn't ready to concede defeat, as indicated in the official statement below. It looks as if they're planning to re-plead their case in 30 days.\nPower.com has issued this statement on the dismissal:\n\n\"Earlier in the case Judge Fogel granted Power's motion to require Facebook to provide a more detailed pleading of its claims.\u00A0 Yesterday's order essentially does the same thing with respect to Power's counterclaims and affirmative defenses.\u00A0 The Court determined that Power's pleading did not provide enough detail with respect to the fair use defense and other affirmative defenses, and also with respect to the counterclaims under the unfair competition laws.\u00A0 The Court gave Power 30 days, until November 21, 2009, to re-plead their defenses and counterclaims with more detail.\u00A0 Power intends to do so.\nThis is a routine type of order that often occurs in the early stages of litigation, where the parties dispute the sufficiency of the pleadings in terms of the level of factual detail that is provided.\u00A0 Power is confident that it will be able to amend its pleading within 30 days to satisfy the Court's concerns.\"\n\nWe've embedded the entire dismissal document below, should you be interested in reading detailed information on the proceedings.\n\n\nPower.com Dismissal \t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t    \t\t\t\t\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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