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Amir Michail

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Nov 21, 2008, 3:59:35 PM11/21/08
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Hi,

What sort of similar sounding names could one use for a Twitter
service to avoid trademark infringement?

The idea is to use names that would make it clear that this is a
Twitter service.

Amir

AndyCast Gmail

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Nov 21, 2008, 4:04:25 PM11/21/08
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If it sucks you can call it Shitter.

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Amir Michail

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Nov 21, 2008, 4:09:46 PM11/21/08
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On Nov 21, 3:59 pm, Amir Michail <amich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What sort of similar sounding names could one use for a Twitter
> service to avoid trademark infringement?

Just to be clear, will there be legal problems if the entire word
"twitter" is used as part of a name?

Amir

Alex Payne

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Nov 21, 2008, 4:59:07 PM11/21/08
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There are certainly many applications out there that include "Twitter"
as part of their name, but we prefer that you not do so. "Twit",
"Tweet", etc. are all fine.

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Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/al3x

Christopher Hayen

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Nov 21, 2008, 4:14:31 PM11/21/08
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If you only write half of it, you can call it Qwitter.

Jesse Stay

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Nov 21, 2008, 9:21:42 PM11/21/08
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But if you call it Twit you may be violating Leo's trademark - may
need to ask him about that. http://twit.tv :-)

Jesse

Amir Michail

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Nov 21, 2008, 9:43:25 PM11/21/08
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On Nov 21, 9:21 pm, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But if you call it Twit you may be violating Leo's trademark - may  
> need to ask him about that.  http://twit.tv :-)
>
> Jesse

But tweet is safe?

Amir

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> On Nov 21, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Alex Payne wrote:
>
>
>
> > There are certainly many applications out there that include "Twitter"
> > as part of their name, but we prefer that you not do so.  "Twit",
> > "Tweet", etc. are all fine.
>
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 13:09, Amir Michail <amich...@gmail.com>  
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