Question: is to tweet an official word in the english language
both american and english? as in widely used?
does the US and UK trademark system reject such applications?
In the german TM system, a word which is widely used cannot
be trademarked. Like you can use Water as a image mark
(logowise etc) but not have the word trademarked.
[twit in different trademark class]
re twit from Matt Freedman
No, the Twit trademark doesn't cover most of the Twitter-related use
of it[1]. Although some uses (such as TwitVid) may be considered
trademark infringement under the Twit trademark.
(the link you gave matt is an expired search.)
legal systems are differnt, but in general, the western world
does use mostly the same system.
this is how this would run in the german system and
I am pretty sure it is similar in the US (=somebody with
real knowledge may be able to confirm the classes theory?)
of course the twit one is for something different. what
I meant is that i imagine that you do have the same classes
system, meaning you can have a trademark for twit as
'computer thingy' and nobody else can have a trademark
in _that class_ although it might be something totally different.
example: there is a detergent called linux. even if linux the OS has
a tm, it is in different classes. if I would like to build a game though,
or a computer device like a mouse and call it linux I could not - because
it is in the same class as the linux OS one. Neither can I have a thing
which is covered in the same class as the detergent.
but I can have a chocolaet named linux because that is a third class.
Nicole
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