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 not a lawyer, but I published a book on IP for developers a number of > years ago and learned a lot in the process. > > In the end, it is extraordinarily unlikely that anybody could possibly fail > to infringe when using "Twitter" and/or their logo in a product or service > name that is based on Twitter. That inevitably could cause confusion about > whether or not it is from the company Twitter or not. > > Infringement has nothing to do with whether or not the infringement is > connected with a "good" or "bad" use, such as spamming, etc. > > It will be interesting to see what they do with "tweet." Many attorneys > advise that if you want to preserve rights in a mark, you have to use it > only as a proper adjective. Are they going to grant everybody permission to > use "tweet" but only that way? I'll send you a Tweet(tm) message? Seems > unlikely. Tweet has become a noun and a verb, which I suspect means it is > fated to become genericized, if it hasn't already. > > Nick
