Comments on: Twitter Gets ‘Tweet-itorial’

By: Twitter Wants to Trademark Tweet. Really? Really? — MK Anderson

Twitter Wants to Trademark Tweet. Really? Really? — MK Anderson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:45:51 +0000

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By: Deirdre Reid

Deirdre Reid — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:41:42 +0000

Twitter is getting free brand awareness from Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Tw-you name it.... Why give that up? Why have the world think they're sore sports? Deirdre Reid's last blog post..Be a Renegade ? Bringing Social Media to Your Association

By: Sean McManus

Sean McManus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:35:10 +0000

It’s a tricky one, because you can’t say to people “we’re a platform and we want to be open and have others build apps using our API”, and then start complaining when they use words that describe what they’ve built. Twitter’s success is partly down to its openness, but when you start to see other people’s UIs as competition, you’ve stopped focusing on the platform part and started focusing on the website traffic part. Of course, this all assumes the sites concerned were adding value and not just ripping off Twitter to place ads against it, which would be unreasonable.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:54 +0000

So, Twitter might ask Tweetdeck and others using the “tweet” prefix or suffix to change their tune?

In that case, will the writer of the song Rockin’ Robin ask Twitter to cease and desist using “tweet” too? Or will the makers of Tweety and Sylvester now spark up? Or the makers of the T-37 Tweet trainer aircraft go after Twitter?

Come on, Ev and Biz, don’t make yourselves look foolish here – you weren’t the first to the game with this so make sure you want to go through with it and be prepared for the backlash if you do.

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By: Twitter’s Tweet Trademark Application in Action | Online Marketing with Jacob Wolfsheimer - WolfTrust.com

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:35:17 +0000

[...] See Frank Reed on how Twitter is “uncomforable” with “the use of that [Tweet] trademark in the naming of any third party app” – Twitter Gets ‘Tweet-itorial’ [...]

By: Tweet is a Twitter Trademark. | Online Marketing with Jacob Wolfsheimer - WolfTrust.com

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:22 +0000

[...] See Frank Reed on how Twitter is “uncomforable” with “the use of that [Tweet] trademark in the naming of any third party app” – Twitter Gets ‘Tweet-itorial’ [...]

By: implantingideas

implantingideas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:37:46 +0000

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By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:48:38 +0000

Just Saw this article: http://www.fwd2tweet.com/18/
So http://tweetKnot.com actually received this mail from twitter

By: Don Draper

Don Draper — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Trademarks don’t protect the use of the word as a verb, only as a noun such as the “Tweet” Brand. That’s why the Zerox people want you to “photocopy” or “duplicate” using their “Zerox” brand photocopiers. A Tweet as used by Twitter and the other developers is clearly not a trademark use.

They also have the problem that they filed a 1B – Intent to Use application, which they had to since they weren’t using the mark in commerce since they’ve never actually been involved in commerce. Raising VC money doesn’t count as use in commerce. But clearly other services were charging money with products that used the word Tweet the same way prior to their 1B application. TweetLater comes to mind. So they’ve filed an ITU at the time others were in prior use.

I suppose that’s why they said they were “uncomfortable” instead of just sending a cease and desist letter. These applications were filed so they could check a box during VC due diligence, not because they expect to be able to defend them.

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