My guess is that Twitter will hold both Tweet and Twitter as IP, but
allow general use of Tweet. It seems to really make sense to defend
the name of their company always, and Tweet only when it is misused.
-dave
On Aug 12, 11:43 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
Nick,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM, David Fishertib...@gmail.com wrote:
My guess is that Twitter will hold both Tweet and Twitter as IP, but
allow general use of Tweet. It seems to really make sense to defend
the name of their company always, and Tweet only when it is misused.
-dave
Twitter
Nick,
TweetLater.com has been using tweet as a verb since April 2008.
Dewald
On Aug 12, 12:21 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
In case anybody wants some decent facts on this issue, Wikipedia has a
pretty good article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement
I'm
Tweet is already a verb. See http://www.answers.com/topic/tweet
I am not an English speaker. But see the output of the following
command in your linux distro.
$ look tweet
tweet
tweeted
tweeter
tweeter's
tweeters
tweeting
tweets
How can it become IP ??
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A K M Mokaddim
http://talk.cmyweb.net
I believe you can trademark common words within a specific product group.
No micro blog related product could use tweet, but other non-related
products would not be affected.
Example: I could sell a birdfeeder called TweetFeeder since it is not
related at all to twitter's usage.
The reason for
