Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark
Posted by edent 16 hours ago
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Comment by Cpoll 14 hours ago
> The only remaining use is that Twitter.com now forwards to X.com, which by itself is generally not enough to constitute ongoing trademark use.
I wonder if X's lawyers can argue that the millions of Twitter-branded share buttons and links all over the internet count.
Comment by rogerrogerr 13 hours ago
Or all the people who still call it Twitter as an ineffectual act of protest.
Comment by hallole 11 hours ago
I hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting when I say "Twitter" or "tweet," I just think it sounds way better.
Comment by LocalH 9 hours ago
Not a trademark lawyer, but I wonder if that can actually result in implications of genericization.
Comment by Cpoll 8 hours ago
It's not genericization in this case, people only call X "Twitter," not all text-based short form social media.
Comment by refulgentis 10 hours ago
I hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting just because I'm getting old (37) and have 15+ years of neural pathways of daily use of the site to nuke. "tweeted" -> "posted on X.com" is really hard.
Comment by wormius 4 hours ago
I think it's:
"tweeted" -> "xited"
pronounced "shitted"
Comment by fwipsy 12 hours ago
There's no way this will actually be allowed. Musk is petty, has deep pockets, and giving up the trademark also means losing Twitter.com and all the links to it. This filing must be a publicity stunt.
Comment by AlexAplin 11 hours ago
For what it is worth, they have communicated that they do eventually plan to retire the domain themselves [1]:
>Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x[.]com, allowing us to retire the Twitter domain.
Comment by iancmceachern 3 hours ago
They famously lost the trademark to "Talkboy" and someone snagged it up recently.
Comment by mrgoldenbrown 15 hours ago
Musk has spent plenty of money on whims, perceived insult or for the LOLs before. If he doesn't like this, he could easily spend some cash to "use" the twitter marks for the smallest possible value of "use" that meets the legal standard.
Comment by ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago
Comment by andreygrehov 11 hours ago
God these leeches can’t leave Musk alone…