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Last Updated on February 24, 2024 8:20 am by
“Tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet,” without paying royalties.
The Guardian reports that Twitter’s attempt to trademark the word, tweet, has failed, not because the idea is silly, but because someone beat them to it with .
- The authority cited three applications by firms called TweetMarks, Cotweet and Tweetphoto, and said there was a “likelihood of confusion” between the various marks.
Now, I can see that trademarking terms such as “TweetMarks,” “Cotweet,” and “Tweetphoto,” because they are made up words meant to identify a specific product, much like “Xerox” and Kleenex.” But it rubs against my cranky old man grain to see someone try to trademark a plain English word that dates back to the 1700s.
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