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December 22, 2009

Bing! Bang! Bust! TM!

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The Guardian reports that several small outfits are suing Microsoft over the name of its Bing! search engine, claiming trademark infringement. Bing! Information Design, based in St Louis, Missouri, launched a legal action last week in a local court – alleging that the multibillion-dollar software corporation “had knowledge of the mark” and “intentionally interfered” when […]

August 22, 2009

The Little Birdies Can Still Sing

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“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 . Now, I can see that trademarking terms such as “TweetMarks,” “Cotweet,” and “Tweetphoto,” because they are made up words meant to […]