UPDATE: Nothing in the most recent legal filing indicates that Facebook changed its Timeline launch date as a result of the suit. However, several developers have noted that a message saying that Timelines would automatically publish to the public on September 29 has since been updated to October 6.

A federal judge has refused to grant a temporary restraining order on Facebook at the request of Timelines.com, a small Chicago company that claims Facebook's new Timeline feature threatens its business But Facebook did say it would delay a full launch, according to PaidContent's sources.

Facebook Timeline, a feature that reorganizes users' profiles into multimedia-rich scrapbooks of past updates, has been expected to go live any day. Some 1.1 million users have already installed the feature on their profiles by enabling developer access.

The judge in Timelines.com's patent lawsuit declined the site's request to disable users from signing on through the developer program. He did, however, order Facebook to report daily how many new developers were enabling the Timeline.

In the filing, Sam Lessin, product manager at Facebook, promised that Facebook would not launch Timeline between the time of his testimony and Tuesday, when representatives from Facebook and Timelines.com will meet again in front of another federal judge to debate whether an injunction should be issued against Facebook.





