Operation Bluebird Inc files petition to cancel the Twitter trademarks
ttabvue.uspto.govTwitter.com/{username}/status/{tweetid} URLs redirect to x.com, because X continues to host the HTTP redirect (so that all of the existing links to tweets from other sites continue to work).
X acquired the database of tweets that billions of twitter.com URLs point to.
X acquired the Twitter trademarks when they acquired Twitter.
Probably millions of other users of the Twitter brand assets (in accordance with the posted Twitter brand guidelines) have not yet updated their Twitter bird logos to the X X.
To defend such trademarks, X corp must prosecute competing social media sites that misuse its trademarks and word marks out of accordance with the posted brand guidelines.
There is no statutory requirement for a company to continue to host brand guidelines for retained and/or actively used trademarks in order to retain their USPTO trademarks.
Did they register Twitter.new with intent to compete with Twitter.com in the Social Media space?
What does USPTO call the Twitter/X trademark exclusivity industry category?
That's confusing to the average consumer.
Isn't that like typo squatting?
The implication from the LinkedIn post (to my eyes at least) is that they believe they have a case for canceling X Corp's claim to the Twitter trademarks. And then the landing page at twitter.new certainly implies that they plan to start their own social network/app called Twitter.
Given such brazen and flagrant misuse without acquiring the trademark itself or the brand, they must have wanted to lose.
Came across this on LinkedIn and thought it might interest the HN community. Apparently they've been working on this over the last 2 years.
LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelperoff_uspto-ttabvue-p...
Website: https://twitter.new