The early bird gets the trademark, a lesson Twitter Inc. is learning the hard way.
“Tweet” may be ubiquitous slang for the microblogging site’s 140-character posts. But Twitter has struggled unsuccessfully to trademark the word. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has suspended the site’s trademark applications for tweet because other companies applied to trademark various versions of the mark before Twitter did.
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